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• The Cult of Done Manifesto

  OK, the number of manifestos is getting a little silly, but there is one statement here I really like; "Accept everything is a draft").

• User experience treasure map

  I stumbled across Peter Morvilles' user experience treasure map in a disappointing presentation on cross-channel design. This is an excellent summary of the user experience lifecycle deliverables and his take on how they fit together (into a treasure map).

• 30+ iPad Apps For Designers, Developers And Creative Types | SpyreStudios

  I still love my iPad. This is a great selection of sketch and design apps.

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• Slowest Load Times of Microsoft Sharepoint | Visual.ly

  I love the sharepoint features, but hate the loading times...

• (Agile 2011) Lean UX: Getting Out of the Deliverables Business

  Lots of pretty pictures and a good basic message about the need for UX-guys to focus on the experience and not the beautiful deliverables in a lean project. Would have liked to see more about approaches.

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• Stupid, Stupid Client | UX Magazine

  I don't like the title, but the commentary on approaches to help your client understand the user experience design process are solid.

• The priming effect - British Airways Business Life. Business advice and inspiration, insider tips from the world’s top CEOs, analysts and entrepreneurs.

  Subtle priming of meetings and decisions seems to have a big effect - no surprises from my side here - context is everything! I fear I am becoming known as being a little obsessive about this stuff though...("thought-police" has come up a couple of times in recent feedback sessions ;-)).

• Agile & CMMI

  My thoughtful colleague (see previous postings) is once again busy reading up on interesting things (and in particular software engineering capability building. In this context he has revisited CMMI, thus causing me to revisit CMMI, having dismissed it as a truly helpful tool several years back (the last time I even surfed the SEI website was about 5 years ago). Shame on me! There has been a good deal of thoroughly interesting improvements and the SEI lot have build an impressive portfolio of useful materials. This link is an appraisal of how to combine agile and CMMI elements - a little dry, but quite thorough.

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• Bain & Company : Management Tools - Top 10 Management Tools

  Amusing overview of management tool development over the last 20 years - not much change!

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• Geoffrey West: The surprising math of cities and corporations | Video on TED.com

  Finally another interesting talk at TED after many disappointments - companies die, cities don't don't.

• User Centred Design | Visual.ly

  A little simplistic, but I am a big fan of penguins ;-)...

• Home | CRM Idol

  Slightly depressing.

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• Requirements Versus Design: It’s All Design

  This guy is bang on - requirements analysis and functional design - rarely in practice can they be separated and in agile projects the analyst should revel in this fact and the opportunity it presents!

• An Agile Functional Specification

  In praise of specification, even in agile projects :-).

• The Fun Theory

  A Volkswagen initiative along the lines of gamification. I am not sure I morally agree with the Speed Camera lottery (rewards for sticking to the speed limit paid for by the fines of those that don't), but I am sure that it could work!

• Book Resources | Beyond Bullet Points

  Useful set of templates for presentation structuring a la "BPP"

• The Future of Social Customer Relationship Management

  I may be outing myself as a CRM ignoramus, but I had never heard of the Value TRInity (Customer value indicators based upon Transaction, Relationship and Influence) - not sure that it is a complete view, but it is catchy ;-).

• Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

  Having just been reading about how Kanban helps to create "Flow", I stumbled across this presentation about Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's apparently seminal work on the topic, "Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience."
  
  Based upon my normal disdain for the profession, I am a little worried that I am finding the writings of a psychology professor so interesting. Perhaps I am finally maturing.

• Kanban and Scrum

  A great overview of Kanban and Scrum, and how they can be made to work together. As always, common-sense prevails - take the best bits from both, but do so knowingly because otherwise you will break them both!

• LeanModel - LeanSSC Wiki

  Lean underpinnings for agile thinking, summarized well.

• InfoQ: Kanban System Design

  Another great presentation on InfoQ - this time, a thoughtful talk by Karl Scotland on combining Kanban and the thinking that underpins it (rather than just the process itself). I particularly like the fact that he connects systems thinking archetypes around flows and pressures with the motivation for the system, since I absolutely buy into this myself... though I still can't claim to really understand the systems thinking underpinnings (despite a half a dozen books and too many online articles!).

• Start With Why, Simon Sinek

  Saw the TED talk from Simon Sinek and enjoyed it. Web site is nice to.

• InfoQ: Testing for the Unexpected

  It has been a while since I have personally spent any time in the world of quality assurance, but, as so often, I have a strong opinion on the massive difference that "good" testing can have, not just on finding and avoiding problems, but also on improving the product that is being developed (think, "does the customer really want to do this this way?!?"). This is a nice presentation on exploratory testing in agile projects.

• Method Cards (Beta 1.0) | Design Thinking

  A nicely structured presentation on how to apply a process to the creative design process.

• S-Bahn-München zeigt aktuellen Standort der Züge in Google Maps an | Internet | News | ZDNet.de

  Now that is a mobile app worth having - realtime map of train positions in Munich... OK, so it is only worth having if you live in Munich... let's hope it extends to other towns soon!

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• Strategy 2.0: The Six Key Telco 2.0 Opportunities - STL Partners / Telco 2.0 Research

  Good overview of status quo on direction for telecommunications companies under pressure on all sides.

• How Strategic Planning relates to Enterprise Architecture

  A promising no nonsense start to this article ended in disappointment, but still the discussion around business capabilities and how best to segment them in the context of strategic planning is an interesting one. I remain convinced that the best way to frame these capabilities is through the customers' eyes (ie. via customer experience scenarios or journeys), even at the cost of some clarity in what the capability actually requires (in the case of inward facing needs); I have sadly yet to see much of this in TOGAF case studies or application.

• The Incredible Run of Google+ - Technorati Technology

  Wow, google+ is spreading like crazy. I don't dare speculate where this one is going, but if you are in the online business, you better start playing with this one!

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