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 Non-Functional Requirements
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.
User Stories and Use Cases
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.
Gender Bias in 2008 Product Manager Salary Data
Pragmatic Marketing’s 2008 Product Management and Marketing Survey Results – Part 2 This article continues our analysis of Pragmatic Marketing’s survey data – this time looking at the data for signs of gender inequality.
2009 Bad Usability Calendar
Netlife Research brings us the 2009 Bad Usability calendar. Get it while it’s hot.
2008 Pragmatic Marketing Survey Results: Part 1
Pragmatic Marketing’s Annual Product Management and Marketing Survey Results – 2008 We’ve started our analysis of the over 1000 responses to this year’s survey. Thanks again to Pragmatic Marketing for allowing people in the community to analyze the data. Let’s dive in…
Stakeholders in a Barrel
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 […]
Inspired By Your Customers
Should your products be designed by your customers, or inspired by your customers?
ProductCamp Austin Winter 2009
The second productcamp for Austin is just around the corner! Are you going to be there? You should.