A look back at the best from a year ago.
Administrivia
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Happy Birthday Tyner Blain Readers
Hooray Us We’re taking the day off to tip back a couple cold ones and celebrate a great year as a community! Tip a glass or two with us, and thanks for being here! Technically, we’re cheating – we don’t turn two for two more days. But here we are […]
Business Analysis / Process Flow / Requirements / Requirements Models / UML Modeling
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How To Draw an Asynchronous Process
Documenting processes is something most business analysts have to do. The goal of documenting the process is to communicate requirements. By establishing a shared understanding of the process, you can establish the context for the requirements. Easy processes are easy to draw and understand. When documenting a more complex process, […]
Flashback
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Flashback: A Year Ago This Week on Tyner Blain [2006-11-17]
A look back at the best from a year ago.
Product Management
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Pragmatic Marketing 2007 Survey
The polls are open! Go to their announcement to take the annual Product Management and Marketing Survey!
Lists / Product Management
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Ten New Product Manager Tips
Welcome to product management! Over the the better part of three months, Adrienne Tan at brainmates, product management people, put together a series of posts with ten tips for new product managers. Check out our article for a quick summary, and links to all the articles at brainmates.
Flashback
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Flashback: A Year Ago This Week on Tyner Blain [2006-11-10]
A look back at the best from a year ago.
Business Analysis / Product Management / Requirements / Requirements gathering
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Avoid the Abilene Paradox
An excellent article by Jonathan Babcock raises a thought provoking idea. When gathering requirements, we can end up with requirements that no one actually wants, because everyone thought someone else wanted it. This is apparently known as the Abilene Paradox, a term coined by Jerry Harvey. We can apply our […]
Business Analysis / Communication / Consulting / Requirements / Writing
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Requirements Writing Style and Synonyms
A rose by any other name… When we’re learning how to write in high school and college, we’re taught that synonyms make our writing more exciting. In fact, not using synonyms can make our prose clumsy and awkward. When it comes to requirements, the last thing you want to do […]