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Stowe Boyd

Peter Harrison on Outsourcing Bill Of Rights

8. February 2009, by Stowe Boyd

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A week ago, I came upon an article by InformationWeek’s Marianne Kolbasuk McGee, citing John Castleman, the CEO of Alliance Global Services, an IT outsourcing firm, regarding a proposal that the company has made for an Outsourcing Bill Of Rights. The motivation for the ‘bill of rights’ for outsourcing clients appears to be a counter [...]

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Saumitri Choudhury

The “more is less” paradox in Product Design

23. January 2009, by Saumitri Choudhury

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(Reposting from my blog at Coffeeagain…) Last Wednesday, as part of our “Design Discussions” session, my team and I watched the “Paradox of Choice” lecture by Barry Schwartz. We had watched Barry’s talk before but we loved listening to the talk again. While the whole talk is relevant, one area that is particularly relevant to Product Design [...]

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Saumitri Choudhury

Products are not just a collection of Features

12. January 2009, by Saumitri Choudhury

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(Reposting from my blog at Coffeeagain… ) Software products are not just created but also thought out and conceptualized as a collection of features. While this works for extending features on an existing large product, for the conceptualization of a new product, this is possibly the best way to lose your way.  The value of the whole [...]

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Manish Rathi

Goals Driven Planning for Product Releases

21. November 2008, by Manish Rathi

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One of the most important thing all the new product entrepreneurs have to figure out as part of their Business Plan is what is going to be their go-to-market strategy atleast from Product or Services Delivery perspective. This is especially true for an organization which is starting up. As critical as it is for almost [...]

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Manish Rathi

Distributed Agile: Managing Agile in Distributed Teams

17. November 2008, by Manish Rathi

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There seem to be an implicit assumptions amongst many of the Agile practitioners that Agile is best practiced in a small and co-located teams. I feel that in some sense these assumptions may be because the complexity of managing Agile in a distributed team/s (geographically distributed) is certainly more than practicing Agile in a co-located [...]

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