A look back at the best from a year ago.
Business Analysis / Requirements
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Stakeholder Goals: Principal vs. End User
In our earlier article about managing stakeholder goals, we looked at the relationships between principal stakeholder goals and end-user stakeholder goals. We also showed a way to trace those dependencies. But that approach does not provide us with any insight about the alignment (or lack thereof) between differing goals. This […]
Foundation series
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Foundation Series: The Difference Between Correlation and Causality
One of the most common mistakes people make when looking at data is to jump to conclusions about the data. We all live in a world of cause and effect. It is only natural that when we see data that appears to show cause and effect, we assume that it […]
Flashback
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Flashback: A Year Ago This Week on Tyner Blain [2006-10-13]
A look back at the best from a year ago.
Business Analysis / Interaction design / Product Management / Requirements / Software development / UX
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Managing Stakeholder Goals
A couple weeks ago we wrote about Outside-in Software Development, by Carl Kessler and John Sweitzer. One of their ideas about stakeholders and goals has got us thinking about traceability.
Marketing / Prioritization / Product Management / Requirements
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Fast Follower Product Strategy: Microsoft Zune
Microsoft has a product called Zune that is a competitor to the Apple iPod. They just recently announced their second release – the new version of the Zune. Since Apple already dominates that market, Microsoft qualifies as a follower – how are they approaching the introduction of a new product […]
Flashback
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Flashback: A Year Ago This Week on Tyner Blain [2006-10-06]
A look back at the best from a year ago.
Business Analysis / Project Management
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Estimating an Inestimable Project
We create cost estimates at many times in a project. From budgetary estimates at the start of a project all the way to PERT estimates of tasks in a work breakdown structure. Creating a budgetary estimate seems impossible – you have to make many assumptions, your estimates are based on […]
Success Stories
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Software Product Success Stories
Most of us have seen those blog-tagging memes – “Tell us three things people don’t know about you” or “What did you have for breakfast?” We’re starting a useful one today – How I helped make a successful product! Read on to see our success story, and find out who […]