Hooray! Tyner Blain is well into its fifth year, and I’m thrilled to say, going strong. The Tyner Blain blog turns 5 tomorrow – on Nov 24th 2010! Thanks so much to everyone who comes here to share, learn, teach, critique, and read!
Administrivia / Agile / Business Analysis / Prioritization / Product Management / Project Management / Requirements / Requirements gathering / Requirements Models / ROI / Software development / Use Cases
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Most Engaging Articles of 2009
Engagement – that’s what this whole product management blogging thing is about. Check out what Tyner Blain readers found to be the most engaging articles in 2009.
Flashback
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Flashback: A Year Ago This Week on Tyner Blain [2005-12-10]
A look back at the best from a year ago.
Administrivia
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Happy Birthday Tyner Blain!
The Tyner Blain blog is a year old today! Look back at some of our stats, including most popular posts, and a little bragging (not too much, we hope)!
Design / Lists / Software development / Usability / UX
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Top five usability blunders (and fixes)
Five easy steps to alienating your users with bad usability Fail to simplify a comprehensive interface so that new users can quickly climb past the suck threshold. Build an inconsistent UI layout or interaction design that varies throughout the application, creating a sense of dissonance for the users. Interrupt the […]
Foundation series / Process Improvement / Requirements / Software development
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Foundation Series: Software Process (Waterfall Process versus Incremental Process)
A software process is the set of activities required to create software. This process can be defined with very precise steps, roles and responsibilities. The process can also be defined with a more fluid set activities in pursuit of concrete, high level objectives. Or software can be created without explicitly […]
Requirements / Requirements Models / Use Cases
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CRUDdy use cases and Shakespeare
CRUD (Create, Retrieve, Update, Delete) is an acronym used to refer to a set of mundane, important, and indirect (if not implicit) requirements or use cases. To create a report on orders, you have to first create the orders and retrieve them. Further, the ability to update (edit) and delete […]
Consulting / Process Improvement / Requirements
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Why We Should Invest in Requirements Management
Need to convince someone in your management chain why they should invest in managing requirements? There are some great arguments…
Polls / Requirements / Requirements Models / Use Cases
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Use Case Series: Formal Use Case
This is the classic use case as described by someone who talks about Software Engineering. All of the training classes (other than Agile classes) that I’ve been to teach formal use case development as a component in a system of requirements management.