Good ideas, and how to turn good ideas into great products
Bob Sutton has an article in Business Week online, Eight Tips for Better Brainstorming, about how real companies get real value from various creativity practices:
“badly managed face-to-face brainstorms do stifle creativity and … even when brainstorming is done right, people probably can still generate ideas faster when they work alone. But it is total nonsense […]
Ken Sandhage was riding a bus when he noticed the book the woman sitting next to him was reading. When he asked her about it, it turned out she was a biologist, and the book was about diatoms - the ornate microscopic exoskeletons of single-celled algae.
As the bus rolled on, Sandhage was jolted by a […]
Just found this note about requirements from Glen Alleman (on a random websearch). I like his “killer bullet points”:
Customers’ stated requirements are never the real requirements
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Investment in a System Life Cycle Requirements Process at 8% to 14% of project costs yields better results
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In his latest article, Where Should Product Management Live?, Martin Cagan makes the point that product management isn’t either a marketing function or an engineering function, but needs to be considered its own organization. This is a point that I suspect most PMs believe in their hearts, whatever organization they work in.
But I thought Martin’s […]
Scott at Tyner Blain posted this mashup of Interaction design and structured requirements back in March. I missed it then, but it’s great stuff!
Our combination of interaction design and structured requirements principals makes it even more difficult to differentiate between “requirements”
