Get Your Own Way

by Charl Dreyer on July 14, 2009 · 0 comments

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If you had to say to your Team that fewer than 8 out of 100 people know the difference between a search engine and a browser, would they believe you? Would it make a difference to how you built software? You know, those geeky bits that express technical prowess, but user ignorance?

“How do you get your boss to approve something, the customer service people to understand the pain a system is causing, or the folks in engineering to see things your way?” asks Seth Godin in a recent blog. [click to continue…]

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Six Faithful Serving Men

by Charl Dreyer on June 30, 2009 · 0 comments

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Managing Agile will release its Business Case template soon. Be sure to keep a look out for it.

“The formulation of a problem is often more essential than its solution,” Albert Einstein once said. I’m sure he wasn’t talking about a business case at the time, but it’s equally apt to apply it to this essential product tool.

Many business cases I’ve read are framed in the solution domain, which should concern us because the business case may propose solving the wrong problem. As technology derives its value from the underlying business problem solved, solving the wrong problem will result in a sub-optimal ROI. And solving the wrong problem means the solution will fail because it’s implemented in the wrong context. [click to continue…]

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User Solutions

by Charl DreyerJune 5, 2009 Customer Collaboration
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Users create their own ideas about solutions and release timing based on information they get from a number of sources. As product development professionals we should be challenged to see beyond user solutions to uncover users’ real needs.

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