April Dunford gives five great tips on how to market your web product to early adopters. She asks how can you blend marketing and product development to increase adoption, in particular by those who are likely to champion your product before it goes main-stream. Geoffrey Moore covered this in Crossing the Chasm and Inside [...]
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5 Way To Market New Web Products
February 14th, 2010 · View Comments · Product Development
Tags:Competition·Design·Innovation·Marketing·Pricing·Product Development·Product Launch·requirements·Strategy
How do you measure technical documents? What metrics do you use?
November 21st, 2009 · View Comments · Career
One of our tech docs team was fired yesterday. Why? Technical documents provide no value.
This is how Management sees it.
Tags:Business·Career·Design·Human-Computer Interaction·Marketing·Productivity·user interface
Why Users Want Familiar Web Design and User Interfaces
October 13th, 2009 · Comments Off · How To
Jakob Nielsen warns us that users hate change. He recommends that “it’s best to stay with a familiar design and evolve it gradually. In the long run, however, incrementalism eventually destroys cohesiveness, calling for a new UI architecture. ”
You often hear design team members (or their management) say, “We need a fresh design.” This usually [...]
Tags:Application Design·Design·Dialog box·guidelines·Jakob Nielsen·microsoft·Microsoft Excel·Microsoft Office·Microsoft Word·Office Suites·Usability·user interface·Word
Process Design Tutorial #5 | What do I need to capture in my business processes?
June 26th, 2009 · Comments Off · Technical Writing
Process Design Tutorial #5 | What do I need to capture in my business processes?
Tags:Camtasia·CMS·Design·Dita·Flowcharts·google·groundswell·Hulu·India·Jing·microsoft·process·Release Notes·Review·Snagit·Visio.·Webinar·XML
Process Design Tutorial #5 | What do I need to capture in my business processes?
June 26th, 2009 · Comments Off · How To
Process Design Tutorial #5 | What do I need to capture in my business processes?
Tags:Camtasia·CMS·Design·Dita·Flowcharts·google·groundswell·Hulu·India·Jing·microsoft·process·Release Notes·Review·Snagit·Visio.·Webinar·XML
Business Process Design Tutorials
June 20th, 2009 · Comments Off · Technical Writing
Business Process Design Tutorials
Tags:bom example·bom template·BPM·BTO·Business·checklist·Design·Flowcharts·free download·Modelling·process·sample bom·tempalte·template·Templates·Tutorials·Visio.·Word
Process Design – How many swim lanes should I add to the flowchart diagrams?
June 16th, 2009 · View Comments · Technical Writing
How many swim lanes should I add to the process design diagrams?Another part of the process design package is the flowchart diagrams. One area where I’m getting a little stuck is deciding how many swim lanes to add to the Visio diagrams. To get things rolling I have created three Visio diagrams with 2, 3 and 4 swim lanes. Take a look here.The question is: which one will be business analysts use the most?Regards,IvanTwitter @ivanwalsh
Another part of the process design package is the flowchart diagrams. One area where I’m getting a little stuck is deciding how many swim lanes to add to the Visio diagrams. To get things rolling I have created three Visio diagrams with 2, 3 and 4 swim lanes. Take a look here.
Tags:Camtasia·CMS·Design·Dita·Flowcharts·google·India·Jing·microsoft·process·Release Notes·Snagit·Visio.·Webinar·XML
What are the main Process Definition Lifecycle Activities?
June 16th, 2009 · Comments Off · How To
I spent most of this afternoon developing a set of process design templates (more of that tomorrow) and got to thinking about the main activities involved in process definition. I’m mentoring graduates business analysts and walking them through the ABCs of process design. It’s baby steps for now. Here’s what we came up with this afternoon.
Tags:BPM·BTO·checklist·Design·Flowcharts·free download·Modelling·process·tempalte·template·Templates·Visio.·Word
