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Report:Requirements Tools Market Overview, Q2 2010

The Market Expands And Diversifies To Address Diverse Problems

The requirements tools market has expanded and diversified as the business problems that compel teams to consider adopting a requirements tool have multiplied and intensified. Gone are the days in...

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Blog:SaaS Brings Technology Producers And Consumers Into Sync

I'm working on a report about the role of PM in an on demand setting (SaaS, PaaS, and all the other aaSes). As often happens in discussions about PM, the role is a window into many bigger...

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Blog:On Demand: It's A Business Model, Not Just A Delivery Mechanism

As promised, still more SaaS! Following an excellent day of discussion about PM in an on-demand world, I started over here at the fresh-out-of-the-shrinkwrap Forrester community site. Topic: On...

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Report:Time To Assign Owners To Your Applications

Why You Need Product Managers To Supplement Other Roles

One of the chief obstacles to bridging the business/IT gap is the fact that no one really owns the bridge. While some traditional roles, such as business analyst and project manager, combine business...

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Report:Thought Leaders Are Successful Innovators

Innovation Depends On More Than Product Strategy And Product Marketing

In the technology industry, thought leadership is as valuable as it is rare. While the industry is full of companies with big ideas, customers treat only a small number of these vendors as thought...

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Blog:Agile Teaches Us An Important Lesson About Innovation

The story of Agile is more than just one chapter in the history of software development. It's also an extremely valuable case study in innovation, an elusive and often humbling process that...

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Report:High-Value Requirements Are Changing App Dev And Delivery

Requirements Go From Unfortunate Necessity To Strategic Asset

Requirements have undergone a quiet revolution — the conversations have moved from a focus on the high cost of bad requirements to the positive value of good requirements. Not satisfied with...

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Blog:When Requirements Failures Become Epic Fails

By now, the arguments for improving product requirements are very familiar – all too familiar. Bad requirements lead to misconceived projects, many of which fail outright. The...

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Report:For Developers, Dog Food And Champagne Can't Be The Only Items On The Menu

Internal Pilots Are Vital, But They Have Their Limitations

Internal pilots are a necessary part of nearly every development effort. Therefore, "eating your own dog food" and "drinking your own champagne" are phrases familiar to even software development...

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Tool:Web Sites Matter For PLM Vendors, Too

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Blog:IBM Shows Why Tech Companies Should Take Serious Games Seriously

IBM recently launched CityOne, a serious game that poses the kinds of questions about water, power, finance, and retail that city planners face daily. It's a powerful tool for a B2B company like...

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Blog:Your Roadmap Should Make Someone Unhappy

There's a great post about dysfunctional product roadmaps at Product Beautiful. I'll add a couple of other types to the list: The Hatch: Much like the TV show Lost, the roadmap hints...

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Blog:Agile Transformation Needs A Very Specific Roadmap

We've seen a number of misconceptions about Agile come and go. For example, the urban myth that Agile is all about velocity gets far less circulation. More people have seen Agile in practice,...

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Report:The Forrester Wave™: Application Life-Cycle Management, Q4 2012

IBM, Rally Software, PTC, CollabNet, Microsoft, And Serena Software Lead The Pack, With HP, Atlassian, And Rocket Aldon Following

In Forrester's 116-criteria evaluation of application life-cycle management (ALM) vendors, we identified the nine most significant software providers in the category — Atlassian, CollabNet, HP,...

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Report:Best Practices For Software Road Maps

App Dev Teams Reduce Uncertainties And Improve Delivery

In software development, road maps express to customers when valuable technology will be available. Unfortunately, software development includes many unpredictable elements, so the road map, which...

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Report:Tech Vendors Are Only Now Realizing The Full Implications Of SaaS

Product Management Is At The Center Of Changes To Business Models And Innovation

Software-as-a-service (SaaS) may be a familiar part of the tech industry landscape, but tech vendors are only recently fully realizing the profound changes that SaaS demands. Tech vendors that saw...

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Report:Play Around With New Techniques For Requirements Collection

Use Serious Games To Generate New Insights About Your Customer

One of the most popular uses for serious games is requirements collection. Serious games change the rules for conversations about requirements, engaging stakeholders in a new (and, yes, fun) way. By...

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Blog:PMs Expecting To Get More Social

The Australian product management consultancy brainmates just published the results of a survey on a very interesting topic, social media usage among PMs. The short list of questions get right to...

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Blog:Software Development And The Transparent Company (Part I)

A new business model is emerging, and it depends heavily on software development. Many companies are dropping many of the traditional barriers between product development and customers. Without...

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Blog:Agile And Compliance? Now That's A Product!

In my previous post about Agile practices and compliance requirements, I described the first of two big surprises encountered while doing the research. Compliance, as it turns out, is not quite as...

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Blog:Why Politicians Are Like Users

Undoubtedly, when you read the title of this blog post, you thought, "But politicians are users." No, I'm not talking about that kind of user. Instead, I'm thinking of the user we normally...

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Blog:It Takes A Community To Build A Community

Lately, I've been working on behalf of some Forrester clients to answer the question, "How do we build a community?" Frequently, the answer is, "You don't build a community. You expand it."...

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Report:Team In Trouble? Roll The Dice And Try A Serious Game

Serious Games Let Players Try Out Radically New Strategies

For many organizations, the first time they consider using a serious game is when they conclude that familiar methods are not up to the task. The normal rules of the game may not be enough to deal...

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Blog:Researching The Social With The Shizzle

I knew it was only a matter of time before someone used Xtranormal.com to good effect. Always a trailblazer, The Cranky Product Manager posted some videos about interviewing for a PM position. And...

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Blog:The Paranoid Style Of Developer Support

As someone who has worked in development teams, I take it for granted that not everyone on the team has the same needs and interests. A twenty-something Java developer, fresh out of college, is...