This short video discusses what makes a good Product Owner in a Scrum Agile team, how to engage your Product Owner and some pitfalls that can come with the role.

The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is a modeling language standardized by the Object Management Group (OMG) used to manage requirements in software development projects. IDEF, the acronym for Integration DEFinition, refers to a family of modeling languages in the field of systems and software engineering.

The Business Analyst defines the business requirements and processes that will be used to create client deliverables and deliver end software modifications or systems to the clients. The business analyst may also be expected to define, analyze and document current and future business processes and the client business functions that support them to help design the software functionality expected in the overall delivery to the client.

A user story is a tool to describe the product functionality, but it is less useful suited to describe in detail the user interaction. Agile scenarios and storyboards are tools you need to describe the interaction steps. In his post, Roman Pichler what scenarios and storyboards are, how they can be used effectively in an Agile approach and how they relate to user stories.

Learn how to build outcomes over outputs as a key strategy to building great products using the Target Outcome framework. The talk will cover why the metrics we often use are flawed, how to create useful value metrics, track value incrementally and do guerilla user testing.

Jama Software has announces availability of the Jama Product Delivery Platform. The solution connects business decision-makers with product development teams via enterprise social tools that sit on top of the company’s flagship collaborative requirements-management solution. Jama extends product innovation out of development to include all phases of the product delivery cycle, from concept to launch.

Although the actual scale of the issue is arguable, it’s well established in the Project Management community that a very significant proportion of failed projects are due to poor requirements gathering in the early stages of defining project. There are many approaches, and no magic solutions, but this video shows how to use a Mind Map to reduce the technobabble and assisting the site builder and client to come to terms on a shared set of expectations.