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Quote: Implementing Lean Software Development

From Implementing Lean Software Development, “Development is the process of transforming ideas into products. There are two schools of thought about how to go about this transformation. We might call one the deterministic school of thought and the second the

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Giving City Magazine

Check out the latest issue of Giving City Magazine. It is a great example of a talented start-up team making the most of the PDF as a magazine format. Two very talented people Monica Maldonado Williams and Torquil Dewar have

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ProductCamp Austin Winter 2009!

It’s back and just in time for the post-holiday doldrums. “ProductCamp is a collaborative, user organized unconference, focused on Product Marketing and Management topics. At ProductCamp everyone participates: by presenting, leading a roundtable discussion, helping with logistics, securing sponsorship, setting

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Software Curator

Kris Jordan posted a summary of Jason Fried’s keynote speech “Be a Software Curator” from the Web 2.0 conference in New York last week. While I don’t always agree with Jason’s product philosophy completely I think he’s spot-on with regard

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Choose your Methodology, not a Development Dogma

From the Wikipedia entry on Dogma “Dogma (the plural is either dogmata or dogmas, Greek δόγμα, plural δόγματα) is the established belief or doctrine held by a religion, ideology or any kind of organization, thought to be authoritative and not

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Congratulations to ProductCamp Austin

While I’ve been heads down on closing out a six-month project which launches on Monday, I’ve watched as Paul Young and team do a terrific job organizing and executing the first ProductCamp Austin. While I couldn’t participate I wanted to

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New Site: Ask Good Product Manager

Jeff Lash has started a new product management Q & A site called Ask a Good Product Manager. I think that introducing a site that enables folks to ask questions and have the community respond is badly needed. Thanks Jeff!

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Arbitrary posts

A friend mentioned the other day that I haven’t posted in some time. Truth is that I generally don’t post for the sake of posting and I’ve been pretty busy since starting a new position with NextScreen. Now that I’ve

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Great post by Jeff Lash on Goals over Features

Jeff Lash has a great post on getting alignment with stakeholder on goals instead of features.

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Generalized Scrum meetings for everyone

Great post on the scrum meeting format and how it can be applied generically. “The scrum meeting method consists of short, daily meetings designed to keep teams on track and help members get their work done. Scrums are focused on

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