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.
Requirements / Requirements Models / Use Cases
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Use Case Series: Introduction
Use cases can be difficult to talk about, because they immediately invoke so many different preconceptions and prejudices. High school English teachers know that some words aren’t just words – they are symbolic, and represent ideas. They had us write essays like “Who do I think is a hero†and […]