A look back at the best from this week in the past.
Flashback
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Flashback: A Year Ago This Week on Tyner Blain [2006-09-29]
A look back at the best from a year ago.
Flashback
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Flashback: A Year Ago This Week on Tyner Blain [2006-06-23]
A look back at the best from a year ago.
Business Analysis / Product Management / Requirements / Requirements gathering
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Three Types of Requirements Gathering
There are many different activities that are a form of requirements gathering. So many that it can be difficult to determine which approach to use in what circumstance. By classifying requirements gathering into three different types of activities we can simplify the choices.
Flashback
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Flashback: A Year Ago This Week on Tyner Blain [2006-01-20]
A look back at the best from a year ago…
Design / Prioritization / Product Management / Requirements / Requirements gathering
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The Wisdom of Crowds Prevents People’s Passions
The wisdom of crowds helps us avoid stupid decisions. Unfortunately, it also prevents innovative, passionate, fantastic decisions. Collective Intelligence is collective insipidness. We need to keep the inputs of individuals in the mix.
Business Analysis / Requirements / Requirements gathering
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Idea Seeding Better Than Brainstorming
Kevin Cheng and Tom Chi, at OK/Cancel have written an article sharing the creative process they use for creating their awesome strips. Idea seeding is the process where they use time constraints and design/refine cycles to improve their ability to create quality “product.” They also wonder about extending this approach to other areas where brainstorming is normally used.
Foundation series / Requirements / Requirements gathering
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Foundation Series: JAD Sessions
JAD is an acronym that stands for Joint Application Design. JAD sessions are collaborative meetings where the customers meet with developers to determine what the product needs to be or do.
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.