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Business Goals and Requirements

Posted on: March 11, 2010

One of my colleagues got into a debate with one of his colleagues about the differences between goals and requirements. His opponent fired the following salvo: “[That] is not a business requirement in any company of the world…” What you call your requirements is less important than how you communicate […]

Business Analysis / Product Management

Inspired By Your Customers

Posted on: December 18, 2008December 18, 2008

Should your products be designed by your customers, or inspired by your customers?

Flashback

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.

Business Analysis / Interaction design / Product Management / Requirements / Software development / UX

Managing Stakeholder Goals

Posted on: October 11, 2007October 10, 2007

A couple weeks ago we wrote about Outside-in Software Development, by Carl Kessler and John Sweitzer. One of their ideas about stakeholders and goals has got us thinking about traceability.

Book Reviews / Reviews

Outside-In Software Development: First Look

Posted on: September 27, 2007

A first look at Outside-in Software Development, available tomorrow (or pre-order tonight on Amazon.com). At the time of this writing, the book is #29 on the Hot New Releases list – and you can get it for just over a third off the price if you pre-order now. Take a […]

Business Analysis / Product Management / Requirements

Change is Bad? Mistakes are Worse

Posted on: June 14, 2007

CNET ran an article about a month ago about how Microsoft Live Hotmail – the upgrade/replacement of Hotmail failed to win a lot of converts. Microsoft ultimately had to deliver a “classic” version of the new code base to mimic the behavior of the old software. CNET’s analysis, while accurate, […]

Foundation series / Process Improvement / Requirements / Software development

Foundation Series: Structured Requirements

Posted on: January 4, 2006August 5, 2009

Karl Wiegers wrote the book on structured requirements – Software Requirements, 2nd Edition, Karl E. Wiegers. If you are involved in managing requirements, you should own this book. Even if you don’t follow his approach to managing requirements, or don’t like how he deals with use cases, you should still […]

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