Analyst Best Practices #5: Requirements. Jeff Nichols continues his series on Analyst Best Practices with this post about gathering requirements. A set of good general guidance about how do project requirements. His last practice, though, I think is dangerous. Stay objective. Don’t inject your opinion into the business and user requirements process. Let users and stakeholders tell you what’s needed,…
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Agile Knowledge Management [1].
Agile Knowledge Management. Denham Gray over at Knowledge-at-work has this interesting post about extreme knowledge and its roots in extreme programming methods. One connection perhaps not mentioned is that XP is part of a general movement in software development away from large, lumbering and inflexible processes to more human focused, light processes. This has coallesced into a statement that values:…
Analyst Best Practices #6: Doing…
Analyst Best Practices #6: Doing the Work. Here is an excellent addition to any analyst’s or consultant’s toolbox, again from Jeff Nichols. First it is all about scope. I wish I had learned this sooner in my career. I now spend far more time managing an engagement’s scope both upfront and as it progresses than I have done before and…
A Case Made Against RSS…
A Case Made Against RSS. When newspapers began publishing online editions, they failed to remember why their newsprint editions need Circulation departments. Imagine if your local newspaper didn’t deliver copies to homes, offices, or newsstands, that the publisher assumed anyone who wanted to read a copy would remember to go to the newspaper’s location and retrieve each copy page by…
Jeremy Zawodny has [1] notes…
Jeremy Zawodny has notes on the introduction of My.Yahoo’s RSS support. [Scripting News]
Email is where knowledge goes…
Email is where knowledge goes to die. Email is where knowledge goes to die. What a great line. (This piece by Bill French might be the original source.) Via Lilia, who reflects on asking questions in public. [Seb’s Open Research] Get’s my vote for meme of the week. I also think I saw a reference to this from Scoble as…
Donn Friedman’s 10 Steps From…
Donn Friedman’s 10 Steps From Free to Fee. Although last month I harshly questioned the Albuquerque Journal’s, decision to charge for access to its Web site, I think that the individual steps that Donn Friedman, the newspaper’s Assistant Managing Editor for Production Technology and New Media Innovations, had formulated deserve positive publicity. Thus, I’ve devoted my December Publishing: Free to…
New Baltimore Sun feeds [1]….
New Baltimore Sun feeds. [Scripting News]
Template files for web projects…
Template files for web projects. e-consultancy has published a set of template files for web projects, including the following: Contract for Web Services Web Project Plan Usability (various) Site Map Functional Specification Technical Specification Content Plan Privacy Policy User Agreement Wireframes Style Guide Maintenance and… [Column Two]
KM questions [1]. * What…
KM questions. * What exacly does sharing knowledge really mean? * What are the top 5 current issues in KM? * Which 3 KM technologies are hot and which are not? * What KM strategies yield the quickest returns with the lowest… [Knowledge-at-work]