Being effective at interviewing is key to gathering requirements effectively. We suggest six tips to make the interviewing process more effective and efficient.
Requirements
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Quick Post on Passion
Why Passion is Important Thanks Kathy for Two Simple Words of Passion… I distinctly remember some eye-rolls when we posted Writing Passionate Requirements as part of the Big Ten Rules to Writing Good Requirements series. When we are excited about our product, and believe in the value for our customers, […]
Requirements / Requirements gathering
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Requirements Context
Understanding someone’s perspective on requirements requires that you appreciate the context in which they’ve formed that perspective. Not everyone is playing the same game on the same field.
Usability / UX
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Bad Usability Calendar From Netlife Research
What a great way to demonstrate 12 key usability concepts – creating a calendar where each concept is demonstrated. You’ve heard the saying – “If you can’t be a good example, be a horrible warning.” Here is that saying manifested in calendar form.
Product Management / Requirements
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From Market Requirement To Product Requirements
We looked previously at an example of market analysis, defining first a market opportunity, and then a market requirement. We wrote an article a while ago about how to go from an MRD to a PRD. In this article, we will look at the journey from our market requirement to associated product requirements. And thanks, Roger, for throwing down the gauntlet.
Prioritization / Product Management / Requirements / Requirements gathering
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Interrelation Digraphs As Prioritization Tool
Prioritization can be hard, especially when we’re dealing with a lot of variables. Peter Abilla, at shmula.com takes a fairly esoteric tool (interrelation digraphs) and applies it as a prioritization tool. Opthamologists have learned that they can’t show us a bunch of blurry images and have us tell them which one looks the best, and then prescribe a corrective lense. They have to ask us “Is it better like this? Or better like this?” Peter’s approach does the same thing, but with a quantitative edge.
Product Management / Project Management
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Outside Reading and Thanks!
For your weekend reading pleasure, an interview and an article.
Product Management / Requirements
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Market Requirement Valuation Example
OK, we’ve all read the theory about using value to identify market opportunities – can we see an example? Read on to see an example of creating a good market requirement.
Interaction design / Marketing / Product Management
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How To Apply Market Research Better
Mike Mace provides us with some great insight about market research – helping us to avoid ‘the blender’ and ‘the gap’. The gap is a reflection of the inability of most customers to innovate. The blender is the loss of useful market information into a homogenized input that pushes only the lowest common denominator – again stifling innovation. We have to avoid the blender and the gap to get useful data from our research.