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Customer Connected Engineering: I posted slides on how we do Customer Connected Engineering at patterns & practices to Shaping Software . Customers Connected Engineering (CCE) is how we engage customers throughout our product development. We formally engage customers during Read More...
Posted 19 May 09 06:00 by J.D. Meier | 2 Comments
Filed under patterns and practices, Project Management, Software Engineering, Design
Project Life Cycles at patterns & practices: Periodically I like to revisit our project life cycle in patterns & practices. I like to see how it's shape-shifted over the years. (Note - our project life cycle wraps our product cycle) patterns & practices Project Life Cycle Circa 2005 Here's Read More...
Posted 03 August 08 04:21 by J.D. Meier | 2 Comments
Filed under patterns and practices, Project Management, Software Engineering, Project Practices
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 Read More...
Posted 15 October 07 03:21 by J.D. Meier | 2 Comments
Filed under Security, Performance, Innovation, Guidance Engineering, Project Management, Software Engineering, Effectiveness, Design
7 Habits of Highly Effective Program Managers: What does it take to be an effective Program Manager at Microsoft? I'm responding to some requests for my take on what it takes to be an effective PM. I figured I could use a familiar 7 habits approach to help frame out a start. To pick a set of habits, Read More...
Posted 09 April 07 06:47 by J.D. Meier | 6 Comments
Filed under Project Management, Software Engineering, Effectiveness
David Anderson's Recipe for Success: David Anderson distills his software management learnings down into four bullets: Focus on Quality Reduce Work-in-progress Balance capacity against demand Prioritize He names this set a recipe for sucess. Here's what the recipe mean to me. Focus on Quality. Read More...
Posted 11 March 07 06:04 by J.D. Meier | 1 Comments
Filed under Project Management, Software Engineering, Effectiveness, Productivity
2 Key Process Pitfalls: If I had to pick two easily corrected issues I see show up time and again, I'd pick: Optimizing the wrong thing. Optimizing your process, when what you need is a different process. Two questions I think help: "What do you want to optimize?" (time? money? Read More...
Posted 03 February 07 03:51 by J.D. Meier | 1 Comments
Filed under Project Management, Software Engineering, Effectiveness, Productivity
What Are You Optimizing: This is such a fundamental question. It has an enormous impact on your product design and how you structure your product life cycle. For example, are you optimizing time? ... money? ... impact? ... innovation? ... resource utilization? If you don't answer Read More...
Posted 02 February 07 06:40 by J.D. Meier | 4 Comments
Filed under Security, Innovation, Project Management, Software Engineering, Effectiveness, Productivity
Scenario and Feature Matrixes: One of the most effective approaches I've found for chunking up a project for incremental value is using a Scenario and Feature Matrix . A Scenario and Feature Mat rix organizes scenarios and features into a simple view. The scenarios are your rows. The Read More...
Posted 09 December 06 12:00 by J.D. Meier | 3 Comments
Filed under Project Management, Software Engineering, Design

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