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Business Analysis / Requirements

Stakeholder Goals: Principal vs. End User

Posted on: October 18, 2007February 3, 2008

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 […]

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Flashback: A Year Ago This Week on Tyner Blain [2006-10-13]

Posted on: October 13, 2007October 10, 2007

A look back at the best from a year ago.

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Flashback: A Year Ago This Week on Tyner Blain [2006-08-11]

Posted on: August 11, 2007

A look back at the best from a year ago.

Product Management / Requirements

Inside Out is Backwards – Feature Focused or Goal Driven

Posted on: August 9, 2006August 9, 2006

Kathy Sierra has another great post on the problems people face when using products. One of the sources of the problems is when engineers think “from the inside out” and focus on features or capabilities. People have goals, and they want to achieve goals, not use capabilities.

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