Minimal Viable Product
Minimum viable product: Today I had a coworker come into my office to talk about entrepreneurship and an idea he had for starting a company. His idea was an interesting one related to helping people...
View ArticleA Product Manager’s Minimum Viable Desk
There’s been a lot of talk recently about the benefits of working at a standup desk. People have reported having more energy fewer back and shoulder problems after they made the switch, and studies...
View ArticleMind the Product 2013
We’re thinking of attending the 2013 Mind the Product conference in London this September. Have any of our readers attended? Thoughts? Please give us some feedback in the comments section...
View ArticleUsing Predictive Personalization to Enhance Your Products
Data analytics may seem to be a step removed from software requirements, but it is intertwined with every aspect of the product management lifecycle. Using elicitation with a client to unearth their...
View ArticleHealthCare.gov and the Case of the Missing Interface Requirements
Interface requirements have taken centre-stage with the launch of the federal government’s online marketplace for insurance: Healthcare.gov. As eager enrollees rushed to access the new website, they...
View ArticleAnalytics Projects Part 2: Integrating with a COTS Analytics Tool
As mentioned in a previous post, I will be expanding the concept of an Analytics/Business Intelligence project by outlining a recommended approach for integrating with an analytics tool that provides...
View ArticleBusiness Analyst Tip: Maximizing Displayed Content
I often display documents or spreadsheets to small groups during working meetings. When doing so, I want to maximize the amount of content I am displaying. One easy way to do this is to collapse the...
View ArticleProduct Camp LA – Success!
On Saturday, March 1st Los Angeles had its first Product Camp. Photos and video from the event can be found on the website here: http://productcamp.la/ For being the first PCamp for LA and Silicon...
View ArticleLong Distance Agile – How Good Requirements Documentation Overcomes the...
In the last three months or so, I have been approached by a number of analysts and developers struggling with the problems of working on geographically dispersed Agile teams. In a majority of the...
View ArticleWhat Models Should be Used to Create Requirements in an Agile Project?
This is a question that came up repeatedly in the classes I have taught these past few months. My answer is always the same – “any and all models that are needed to define the problem space and derive...
View ArticleWelcome to The Situation Room
The Seilevel World Headquarters in Austin has workstations scattered throughout about 10 different offices (rooms, not separate locations) and about 7 conference rooms with marker boards, large tables,...
View ArticleHow to form a team to develop your mobile app
If you’re a Product Manager, chances are you have lots of ideas, and your problem may be deciding on which one to execute against. If you’re interested in getting your name more out into the field and...
View ArticleEmpower Business Analysts to Turn Them Into Product Managers
The Business Analyst role in most organizations I have worked with is passive and reactive by design. Analysts are given a feature description and tasked with defining the requirements for the same....
View ArticleValidation and Verification- An Engineer’s Perspective
I recently began teaching our training courses here at Seilevel and one of the topics we cover is validation and verification. In the training, we ask the students to brainstorm what validation and...
View ArticleUnexciting Thresholds
Kano analysis, named for Professor Noriaki Kano, is helpful for figuring out what features will have the greatest sway on customer satisfaction. The approach uses five categories for considering...
View Article2 minute models: A walk through the Business Objectives Model
Please join me for a quick walk through our Business Objectives Model. This video only scratches the surface of how valuable this model really is, and how it can be used for a variety of projects....
View ArticleAligning User Expectations with Business Objectives
Projects with clearly defined business objectives can and do fail even if they deliver functionality that syncs closely with the business objectives defined for the project, but do not meet user...
View ArticleBig Data Challenges in Regulated Industries
I have been working with a large financial services company on a “big data” project. Let me qualify the term “big data” for the purpose of this discussion. We are talking of dealing directly with about...
View ArticleAdjusting To New Information
What does it mean for an organization to be agile? I don’t mean just in terms of agile software development, I mean for any team or company or group of people working toward any common goal. I tend to...
View ArticleDefining Proper Success Metrics on Business Objectives Models
The Business Objective Model (BOM) is one of the foundational models we use as part of the Seilevel requirements methodology. The BOM defines the rationale for doing a project. Every BOM has the...
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