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Business Analysis / Interaction design / Interface Design / Prioritization / Product Management / Requirements / Software development / UX

User Goals and Corporate Goals

Posted on: June 22, 2009

When defining requirements, you always start in the context of a goal – either a user goal or a corporate goal. You need to be aware of both. Having a positive user experience is important, and requires a user-centered understanding. Achieving your corporate goals might be in conflict with some […]

Advanced PERT Estimation
Project Management / Software development

Advanced PERT Estimation

Posted on: June 18, 2009October 16, 2023

Creating a PERT estimate for a single task is both easy and straightforward. Creating an estimate for a set of tasks is still easy, but requires a little bit of math. Combining PERT estimates for tasks is easy, but not as obvious. Roll up your sleeves and dive in.

Book Reviews / Communication / Marketing / Prioritization / Product Management / Requirements / Reviews / Software development / UX

Personas Make Blue Ocean Strategy Proactive

Posted on: April 29, 2009April 29, 2009

Blue Ocean Strategy provides an interesting reactive analysis of companies and markets. Personas are used to understand your customer’s needs. Combining the two provides powerful proactive insights when positioning your product for market success.

Agile / Ishikawa Diagram / Product Management / Requirements / Requirements Models / Software development / Testing

Failure To Launch (Your Product)

Posted on: February 19, 2009

Jump forward in time to the day of your next big product launch (first release, new features, new market segment, etc). And your site/application crashes due to the “unexpected” demand. All you can do now is look for a bucket of water to put out the fire. What could you […]

Agile / Business Analysis / Product Management / Requirements / Requirements Models / Software development / User Stories

Agile Non-Functional Requirements

Posted on: February 10, 2009

Just because your requirement is not a user story does not mean you have to throw it out when planning your next sprint. See one way (that is working) for managing non-functional requirements with an agile team.

Agile / Business Analysis / Product Management / Requirements / Requirements Models / Software development / User Stories

User Stories and Use Cases

Posted on: February 2, 2009

User Stories are one of the key agile artifacts for helping implementation teams deliver the most important capabilities first. They differ from use cases in some important ways, but share more commonalities than you might think.

Usability / UX

2009 Bad Usability Calendar

Posted on: January 13, 2009

Netlife Research brings us the 2009 Bad Usability calendar. Get it while it’s hot.

Agile / Communication / Product Management / Project Management / Requirements / Requirements gathering / Software development

Stakeholders in a Barrel

Posted on: December 30, 2008

There’s really only one way to travel down a waterfall – in a barrel. A lot of people died this way, but some survived. Software projects have been predominantly waterfall projects since the start of software projects. And stakeholders rode down those projects, basically in a barrel. The people riding […]

Agile / Product Management / Software development

ProductCamp Austin Winter 2009

Posted on: December 11, 2008

The second productcamp for Austin is just around the corner! Are you going to be there? You should.

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