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Human Shepherds and the Law of Relevancy
Yesterday, Ed helped me word a "law" that I use for important decisions and that I see show up quite a bit in a number of places. It's the law of human relevancy. The Law of Relevancy No matter how relevant the information is, it's more relevant with
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Scenarios in Practice
Scenarios are a practical way to organize and focus your product design, development and release. (We use scenario-driven engineering in patterns & practices) Key Benefits Business value . You can use scenarios to evaluate business value. What pain
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Task-Analysis Grid for Communicating Product Design
How do you communicate design decisions? … Srinath sent me a helpful link on the Task-Analysis Grid . A Task Analysis Grid is effectively columns of scenarios along with sub-tasks to complete the task. Here's the key points: The columns are organized
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User Experience, Tech Feasibility and Business Value
I found a way to explore more and churn less on incubation (i.e. R&D) projects. It helps to think of your project experiments and key risks in terms of these three categories and in this order: 1. user experience 2. technical feasibility 3. business
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Be the Software
When you're working on an R&D project, how do you shorten the cycles around testing your user experience models? ... Be the Software That's the advise John Socha-Leialoha , father of Norton Commander , gave me and it worked like a champ. We faced
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