Almost everything I’ve read about use cases focuses on describing what needs to be added to your product. Agile development says “get it working first, make it better second.” That means changing the way the software enables a user to do something they can already do. How do you manage […]
Agile / Interface Design / Product Management / Software development / UX
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Agile Prioritization: Which Widget?
Your company is building out a toolkit to support third-party developers. You’ll need a bunch of different types of widgets – combo-boxes, text entry fields, domain-specific controls, etc. You’ve got a long list of desired controls from your customers. You’re agile. What do you build first?
Agile / Product Management / Requirements / Software development
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Satisficing Sprints
Satisficing probably makes more sense than perfecting your product. Can? Open. Worms? Everywhere. Are we really saying “don’t make it perfect?” Yup.
Agile / Ishikawa Diagram / Product Management / Requirements / Requirements Models / Software development
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Agile Product Management: Providing Context
Agile development methodologies succeed because they help development teams be as effective as possible. Development teams do not, however, work in complete isolation. The company they work for has a strategy. The company manages a portfolio of products, and targets a particular product at specific market problems. Within that context, […]
Flashback
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Flashback: This Week in the Past on Tyner Blain [May10]
A look back at the best from this week in the past.
Flashback
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Flashback: This Week in the Past on Tyner Blain [Mar 1]
A look back at the best from this week in the past.
Flashback
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A Year Ago This Week on Tyner Blain [2006-09-08]
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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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 […]