Articles

19 de April, 2008

Featuritis x experience

As people normally say, a picture is worth a thousand words. In Kathy Sierra‘s Featuritis Curve there are some words, but the message from the whole […]
13 de April, 2008

What's the ideal sprint length?

That’s a tough question. You will be able to find sprint length recommendations ranging from 1 week to 2 months. The ideal length depends on: Overall […]
6 de April, 2008

From 500 to 50,000 to 5,000,000 (users, accounts,…)

When developing a new product sometimes the team working on it get the question, or even formulate the question about what should we do if we […]
28 de March, 2008

Agile Principles

Directly from Agile Manifesto website, these are the principles that support Agile Software Development: Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and continuous […]
26 de March, 2008

Explaining Agile

If you need to explain very briefly what is Agile Software Development and its benefits, use the Agile Elevator Speech: … agile is basically three things: […]
22 de March, 2008

When a product is ready for launch? Part II

At the same time that we need to spend on non-recurring development cost in order to avoid the recurring operational cost, we need to be aware […]
16 de March, 2008

Product launched. Now what?

The launch of a product is a big step, but it is not the end of the product manager’s work related to that product. When you […]
13 de March, 2008

When a product is ready for launch?

Release an internet product early but with a few known bugs? Or wait until the product is perfect? When is the right time in the development […]
8 de March, 2008

The rewrite syndrome

It’s not unusual to hear the phrase “stop, we need to rewrite this” at some point in a project. There are even entire projects dedicated to […]