Tyner Blain - Software Product Success
Blog URL http://tynerblain.com/blog/
Tags product management, business analysis, agile, requirements, software, project management, consulting, business strategy, agile development
Articles about software product success - building the right stuff and building it right. Of most interest to product managers and business analysts, with a large dose of agile development thrown in.
Latest Blog Posts
- Can You Write Website Requirements Without a Product Manager? on Nov 17, 2009 in Product Management website product management website product manager
A couple weeks ago, our article on writing design-free requirements triggered some great discussion around requirements and design (also known as “reqs and specs”). What happens when you’re dealing with a website? There are many...
- SEO Product Management on Nov 10, 2009 in Business Analysis Product Management market segmentation and SEO search engine optimization seo seo product management
SEO, Search Engine Optimization, is an area that every online website needs to think about. The idea is that the more traffic you can get to your website, the more products you’ll sell. Just because you can lead a horse to water doesn’...
- Design-Free Requirements on Nov 3, 2009 in Agile Business Analysis Interaction design Interface Design Product Management Requirements Requirements Models Software development UX Use Cases User Stories big ten rules product management and design rules of requirements rules of writing requirements
Design-Free requirements are important for two reasons, and hard for two other reasons. Design-free requirements are hard because you “know what you want” when you should be documenting “why you want it.” Writing design-free...
- Foundation Series: Cross-Selling and Upselling on Oct 29, 2009 in Business Analysis Foundation series cross-sell crosssell up-sell upsell
You have an eCommerce site. You sell products online. Do you cross-sell additional products? Do you upsell to better products? This article explains the difference between cross-sell and upsell, and looks at some real-world data about the eff...
- Agile Prioritization: Which Widget? on Oct 20, 2009 in Agile Interface Design Product Management Software development UX agile development product management and user experience ux and product management
Your company is building out a toolkit to support third-party developers. You’ll need a bunch of different types of widgets – combo-boxes, text entry fields, domain-specific controls, etc. You’ve got a long list of desired contr...
- Modeling User Competency on Oct 14, 2009 in Business Analysis Interface Design Product Management ROI Software development UX Usability competency model experience curves learning curves user competency
Perpetually intermediate (competent) users. Users who briefly exist as novice users and never become experts. Most of your users are competent, and you should design for them. Competent users have different needs and different expectations than n...
- Strategy and Product Roadmaps on Oct 5, 2009 in Product Management Uncategorized product roadmaps strategic planning strategy
Steven Haines, author of The Product Manager’s Desk Reference, recently gave a webinar on effectively using product roadmaps for the Technology Product Management Council at Forrester Research. You should check it out. Strategy First, Roadmap...
