A look back at the best from this week in the past.
Requirements / Requirements gathering / Requirements Models / UML Modeling
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Uncovering Requirements With UML Class Diagrams Part 3
UML Class Diagrams are very effective at uncovering requirements. They give us insight into how the business thinks about objects and their relationships. And from that understanding, we think to ask questions we might otherwise overlook. In this part of our series, we look at how to represent when one […]
Requirements / Requirements gathering / Requirements Models / UML Modeling
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Uncovering Requirements With UML Class Diagrams Part 2
We continue our exploration of UML Class Diagrams with this article that explores how to represent basic business relationships in a class diagram. Drawing these relationships can dramatically clarify requirements documents. Using a class diagram to supplement other requirements documents provides for a centralized reference that enables a shared understanding […]
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Flashback: This Week in the Past on Tyner Blain [Mar 8]
A look back at the best from this week in the past.
Requirements / Requirements gathering / Requirements Models / UML Modeling
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Uncovering Requirements With UML Class Diagrams Part 1
UML Class Diagrams can be used not only for documenting software design, but for documenting software requirements. One of the challenges in writing clear, unambiguous requirements is being precise about what a particular word means. This is especially true with symbolic terms like “quote” or “customer” – where everyone knows […]
Product Management
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The Price Microsoft Pays By Ignoring Vista Customers
We read a lot about the value of listening to your customers and understanding your markets. We don’t hear as much about what happens when you ignore your customers. Thanks to documents exposed as part of a class action lawsuit, we get to see just how bad it can be. […]
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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.
Business Analysis / Prioritization / Product Management / Requirements
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Is Your Product Improving?
Do you recognize this early logo from Amazon.com? Future Now has a great article detailing how Amazon evolved their “add to shopping cart” implementation. From reviewing this summary of the evolution of one feature, we can see that Amazon decided there was value in reinvention. The improved the way their […]
Product Management
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Ask A Good Product Manager
Ask A Good Product Manager is a new blog just launched by Jeff Lash, who also authors How To Be A Good Product Manager, one of our favorite blogs.