Archive for May, 2009

Hey Dev Team! Embrace Changing requirements

I know there is a lot of developers kicking and screaming when they see this, but hear me out, as it is important for the success of your project/product and your sanity and the business being happy with you as a developer.

Lets get one thing straight; REQUIREMENTS WILL CHANGE! I cannot stress this enough. What …

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Turn that idea into Reality

Often we find the challenge of turning an idea into reality quite daunting. And rightly so, its not easy. But the fact is, if you apply a) a process, and b) the discipline, you can get this done.

The discipline is difficult and really up to you, but the process can certainly be challenging, and this …

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Writing A Strategy Paper

When starting a new business. product or venture, many people get caught up on how do they get an idea out of their head and into some format that firstly articulates the idea, and secondly is a format that can be circulated. You hear about business plans, modelsetc etc, but I find that …

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Product Development Best Practices: Write a Scenario

Over the years, I have been involved in many web development projects (web sites and web applications) and teams, and something that we constantly do, but everyone has their own method, is to design or describe the web site as a whole. Some people use wireframes, prototypes, use cases and a whole variety of …

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Don’t solve problems that you don’t have!

Don’t you hate that? When you are working on something, and people start raising problems that we don’t actually have. In traditional projects, this is disguised under the term “risk”.

Raise it, acknowledge it, maybe have one person spend 5 minutes thinking about it, then shelve it.

My mother is a sucker for this when she knows …

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What is the personality of your application?

Does your application have a personality? Does it portray a character or charisma when people …

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Don’t Fix your Scope

Working with clients that are attempting to be Agile in the product/project delivery, I find the toughest battle to win is the one where you are telling them “not to fix scope”. Clients really struggle with this one, “So you are telling me its going to cost X and take Y, but you won’t tell …

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