A look back at the best from a year ago.
Business Analysis / Process Flow / Process Improvement / Product Management / Software development
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Product Managers and Information Flow
Product managers are often described as the hub or center of a software development organization. Saeed Khan takes umbrage with this under-appreciative image in an awesome article about information flow, product managers, and the SDLC.
Agile / Project Management / Software development
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Why Gantt Charts Are Useless For Agile Projects
What can you learn about your agile project from this Gantt chart? The one above looks out two years. It shows task dependencies and concurrencies. If you’re iteratively developing software, do you really expect to know what you’ll be doing two years from now, to know if you truly have […]
Flashback
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Flashback: A Year Ago This Week on Tyner Blain [2006-08-11]
A look back at the best from a year ago.
Agile / Project Management / Software development
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Barrier To Agile Development
Why don’t more companies and teams use agile development techniques? We know some teams just aren’t aware of them – although that list is getting shorter every year. The benefits of iterative development over waterfall development are pretty well established. I don’t believe I’ve seen a study that shows that […]
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Perpetually Almost Finished Projects
Your project is almost finished. Last week, it was almost finished. And you suspect that next week, it will still be almost finished. Why does this happen, and what can you do about it? In some ways, we’ve known about this problem for almost 2500 years But the solutions are […]
Flashback
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Flashback: A Year Ago This Week on Tyner Blain [2006-08-04]
A look back at the best from a year ago.
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Nexus Friday Favorites
Each Friday, we highlight some of our favorite articles, bundles or reviews that people have submitted to nexus. Check out this week’s Friday Favorites… And this week, we crossed over the 100 article mark! Thanks to everyone who has submitted articles at nexus for helping us reach this milestone! We’ve […]
Business Analysis / Expert systems / Prioritization / Product Management / Project Management / Requirements / Requirements Models / ROI / Use Cases
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Prioritization and Value Maximization
We all know the story about the emperor’s new clothes. I’ve been thinking about prioritization and scheduling, and as far as I know, no one is promoting that we maximize value – they (and we) have been promoting that we do the most valuable stuff first. Doing the most valuable […]