Good Slides on Usability Testing – How to make it quick and cheap

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Many times we want to do a quick check on the usability aspects of product features. But the moment we approach the UED team, they talk about elaborate testing and probably estimate few weeks of effort.
The above slides provide a good overview of how we can go about doing Usability Tests quickly [...]

Do You Really Need a Deadline? | Edge of Chaos | Agile Development Blog

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Nice post from the targetprocess guys.
Many times i used to wonder what are we up against in most of the products that i had handled, especially if there are no external commitments (such as marketing events, conferences etc.,)
What if i do not make a release today and instead [...]

Product management on a shoestring budget

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Nice collection of tools that can be used by product managers working for start-ups.
I really liked the ‘UserVoice’ product that allows one to crowd source ideas / issues as well as to prioritize requirements.
But when i searched around i could also see ‘GetSatisfaction’ which is sort of clean and when the getsatisfaction [...]

60+ Useful Adobe AIR Applications You Should Know | Tools

http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/60-useful-adobe-air-applications-you-should-know/
Very good collection of products developed using Adobe AIR framework. It looks like the trend is to create smaller products that addresses a small problem, instead of trying to develop bigger products that tries (yes, bigger product can only try to address)

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Good Slides on ‘Lean Startup Lessons

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Start-ups are all about making things happen as quickly as possible. These slides re-emphasis those points.

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Nice Informal Presentation Style

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Many time i used to wonder if i can ‘truely’ get rid of powerpoint slides for presentations. But was never sure of how my idea / thought process would get accepted. This gives presentation by Jeff Bezos re-assure that the old way of doing thing is still powerful and makes the point.

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It has been a long time…

It has been a long time since i had spent some quality time to post some thing that is useful to the Product Management community. Been in a product manger role for close to 6 years, means definitely there is something to share with the ever-willing-to-learn PM community. Will start with something like 'Product Roadmap [...]

Checking out Posterous

This is a test post for publishing at posterous
Srini
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UI Design – Representing Mandatory Fields ?

Currently, I am into revamping the UI of a retail product. The current version of the product is a based on client-sever architecture and has some watt inconsistent look and feel. Hence, I am into defining UI guidelines to bring about the much required consistency and to make it easy to learn (ie users must be able to self-learn the [...]

Windows Live Writer

It has been a long time since i made any posting to this blog. However, i just started using ‘Windows Live Writer’, which is a blogging tool. To begin with it looks neat and clean, easy to use, the whole setup process went thorugh without any problems.
Yet to use some of its feature and hence [...]