Agile Product Development
The Slides from my recent presentation to the BNS on Agile Product Development. Agile Product Development View more presentations from ianburgess.
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Mary & Tom Poppendieck – Failure Cost
This week I attended a course organised by Lean Data Solution which covered the content of much of the books and helped to refocus some of the practices. … Over the two days we covered several topics: Systems Thinking Technical Excellence Great People Reliable Delivery Relentless Improvement The Journey (change and mental models)
Facebook as a Collaborative Knowledge Management System
What is Collaborative Knowledge Management? To answer this question we need to first look at what is Knowledge and then think about how we as individuals, organizations and communities use and manage knowledge. First lets look at the definition of Knowledge. Knowledge is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as (i) expertise, and skills acquired [...]
50% of Facebook User Access on a Mobile Device
With over 100 million mobile users Facebook is quickly becoming an expert in mobile web and app access, this presentation outlines their road map. It is interesting how they are targeting network carriers and mobile manufactures. Also the strategy to allow easy integration with mobile software developers with the connect library, This is something I [...]
Adobe Air for Mobile
Adobe have committed to launching the Air platform on all mobile devices. Due to my involvement in Mobile Software I can only see this as a good thing. Read more at Adobe Air Blog it is only a matter of time before this is fully ruining on Windows Mobile, iPhone and Blackberry.
Google Wave: Under the Hood
Currently the development projects that are being discussed or I am currently working on are around SAS products and tools to integrate within existing collaborative platforms. The architecture of Google Wave is explained clearly in this video and it has shaped the way that I am structuring these developments. Its worth the hour to watch [...]
Why Critical Chain Project Management
Why would I use Critical Chain Project Management? If you are currently experiencing projects having problems with schedule, budget and scope along with the common event of people over committing through their own acceptance or by the plans of the project manager. If so then it is definitely worth looking at adopting Critical Chain Project [...]
Google Wave Need an Invitation
Still trying to get a invite for Google Wave and reading everything I can on it at the moment. Found this really good video explains Google Wave. As open source products go this may have the most impact on web development so I am following with great interest.
Using User Stories
I have used user stories for some time to develop products and am currently using this process in developing several products it is good to be able to outline the process quickly. To do this I use a simple construct and process to help to in-bed this practice. I will quickly go through this proces
Software Demos – Bringing the user on Board
Something I have been working on with people over the last few months is to begin to explain systems during software demos from the perspective of users, as opposed to just demonstrating functionality. The problem with most software demos is that it shows functionality without showing the user the relevance of the system. The user [...]
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