Requirements Engineering. Requirements Engineering is, as its name suggests, the engineering discipline of establishing user requirements and specifying software systems. There are many definitions of Requirements Engineering (Zave, 1995) ; however, they all share the idea that requirements involves finding out what people want from a computer system, and understanding what their needs mean in terms of design. Requirements Engineering is closely related to software engineering, which focuses more on the process of designing the system that users want. Perhaps the most concise summary comes from Barry Boehm: requirements are "designing the right thing" as opposed to software engineering’s "designing the thing right" (Boehm, 1981).
Requirements Engineering shares many concepts, techniques and concerns with Human Computer Interaction (HCI) especially user-centred design, participatory design and interaction design. The chapter is structured in six subsequent sections. Chapter Table of Contents 13.1.1 Scoping. Defining the Problem Summary. How to Develop Your Fund Raising Strategy. How to Develop Your Fundraising Strategy Raising money is hard. And when you’re relatively new to the process it’s easy to be confused by the process.
There is all sorts of advice on the Internet about how to raise capital. Of course much of it is conflicting. I’ve raised money as a “hot company” and I’ve raised capital when no one would return my phone calls. I’ve raised in boom markets and when everybody thought the Internet was a fraud. And of course I’ve sat on the other side of the table: As a VC. I’ve tried to make this advice as well-rounded and biased free as I can. Executive SummaryFor those that want the answer without reading a long post — here it is. As with any sales campaign you need to: Qualify your buyers early so you focus your scarce resources on people likely to buy your productSpend time researching your buyers and not just pitching themCall high.
Every company is different so it’s hard to listen to advice from the uber-successful fund raisers. And now, the details … What cloud boils down to for the enterprise — Cloud Computing News. Should Your PR Firm Be Your Social Business Advisor | social business. Hearsay Social CEO Clara Shih on Social Business. Just last month, TechCrunch TV posted a terrific interview between TC’s Leena Rao and Hearsay Social Founder and CEO Clara Shih. Hearsay Social is a social media CRM tool with capabilities that span from day-to-day community management to large enterprise social media compliance. In the video interview below, Shih describes the core functions of Hearsay Social and how the platform can be used by brands and agencies to help meet their social media goals. What’s impressive and notable is the focus that Hearsay Social places on social business collaboration. A section of the Hearsay dashboard is dedicated to enterprise social media compliance, ensuring that employees at all levels and in any geographic location are able to operate within industry and company regulatory guidelines.
Check out the interview and let us know what you think of social business tools like this in the comments! About the author: Zach Cole View all posts by Zach Cole. This Is Generation Flux: Meet The Pioneers Of The New (And Chaotic) Frontier Of Business. Lift and Access - Your Source for Aerial, Crane, and Forklift Equipment & Information. Shannon Clark - Google+ - Nearly a decade ago I worked on a few of these standards… The Lean Startup Wiki / FrontPage. Optimizely: A/B testing software you'll actually use. How to Become an Early Riser. It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom. – Aristotle Are morning people born or made? In my case it was definitely made. In my early 20s, I rarely went to bed before midnight, and I’d almost always sleep in late. I usually didn’t start hitting my stride each day until late afternoon.
But after a while I couldn’t ignore the high correlation between success and rising early, even in my own life. On those rare occasions where I did get up early, I noticed that my productivity was almost always higher, not just in the morning but all throughout the day. . … and the next morning, I got up just before noon. Hmmm… I tried again many more times, each time not getting very far with it. It’s hard to become an early riser using the wrong strategy. The most common wrong strategy is this: You assume that if you’re going to get up earlier, you’d better go to bed earlier. It seems there are two main schools of thought about sleep patterns. (9) Startup Metrics for Pirates. Startup You. 5 Reasons Why CapGemini Just Re-Positioned their Management Consulting Practice to Focus on Social Business. Don’t believe the world’s businesses are going social? Take this recent declaration from CapGemini’s Managing Director, Global Head of Practices, Didier Bonnet when discussing Social Business with me: “We’ve actually repositioned the entire practice around digital transformation.
So for us it’s not just changing one service offering; it’s our entire focus globally for our teams to deliver and to sell.” He came to that crucial decision after MIT and CapGemini interviewed over 160 executives throughout Asia, Europe and North America and discovered that businesses are digitizing. CapGemini’s decision was further supported by Andy McAfee, MIT’s Principal Research Scientist for Digital Business, view that, “analog companies eventually are going to get swept aside by digital companies. It’s my firmest belief about the future of business.” Here are 5 major reasons why: #1 The Company’s Innovation Culture is Weak Does your product or service trigger a yawn or a smile?
A guide to carrying out usability reviews. Think that you need to be a usability expert to carry out a usability review? Well I won’t deny that it helps (spoken like a true expert!) But since user experience certainly isn’t rocket science anyone can have a good stab at carrying out a usability review and learn a great deal in the process. In this article I walkthrough a method for examining the usability of an interactive system (website, application, mobile app etc.) by using a combination of a scenario based and heuristic (i.e. best practice guidelines) based review. I also discuss when usability reviews are most useful and outline some of the pros and cons of the technique.
What are usability reviews? Usability reviews are a structured means of examining the usability of an interactive system by evaluating it against a set of recognised usability best practice principles. Broadly speaking there are two different types of usability review – scenario based reviews and heuristic based reviews. Usability reviews – the good news 1. Say Hello to Your New Brain on Evernote, Company of the Year. Phil Libin remembers the moment he left childhood behind. It was nearly four years ago, when the funding for his Internet start-up fell through. He was 35. It had all been so much fun until then.
But at 3 a.m., out of cash and having waited in vain for a venture capitalist or angel or CEO or anyone at all to return his increasingly desperate calls, Libin knew that he would have to pull the plug on Evernote, a software application that helps people remember things. "I realized I was going to have to wake up tomorrow and lay off everyone in the company," he says. Exhausted and demoralized, he was reaching for the light switch when his e-mail dinged. Feeling more awake, Libin typed back: "It just so happens we could use some cash. The answer came right back: "Would half a million dollars be enough? " Today, the company is swimming in tens of millions of dollars in cash from both VCs and profits. Libin has different ways of explaining it: It's your brain offloaded to a server. 1. 2. 3. 4.
How to hire rock stars. In Europe, most sports leagues participate in a system of Promotion and Relegation. At the end of each season, the top three teams in the second league get promoted to the first league and the bottom three teams in the first league get relegated to the second league. This maintains the intensity of games for low ranked teams at the end of the season, among other things. Now here’s an odd fact: The very best players only play in the first league — it’s in their contracts.
If their team gets booted to the second league, these folks roll off and immediately find first-league work, typically with some of the recently promoted teams. If you’re a newly promoted team, you need to augment your roster quickly in order to compete. You can get Beckham There is a similar analogy with the talent wars at technology companies. As far as talent goes, Silicon Valley is akin to 15th century Florence: The best of the best have moved here to work in technology. Act fast.
But what about…? Reality Check column: Is Brazil ready for ‘Internet of Things’? | | RCR Wireless News AmericasRCR Wireless News Americas. Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We’ve gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace. Brazil has finally awoken to the enormous opportunities in the machine-to-machine communications market. M2M communications are roughly defined as the interactions between two or more remote entities with no involvement of human interfaces.
Also known as machine-type communications (MTC) by 3GPP, ubiquitous sensor networks (USN) by ITU or Internet of Things by the newest literature, the number of M2M applications has increased significantly during the past two years. Major applications for M2M include fleet monitoring, logistics, agribusiness, m-health, security applications, smart cities, remote control of vending machines, and utility metering. Follow RCR Wireless News – Americas on Twitter, Facebook and subscribe to our free periodic newsletters. Behind the Scenes: How Fab Raised $40 million with a lot of data and not much pain. Let’s face it, fundraising can be a real pain in the ass for the entrepreneur. It takes up a ton of time that can be otherwise spent managing the business. Sure, it’s a necessary evil, but it’s also typically a big distraction. It’s also a lot like dating. You have to go on a lot of first dates before you can move on the to the second, third, fourth, and then hopefully marriage.
When we decided to raise a large round of financing for Fab in October, my biggest concern was that it would divert our management team’s time and attention away from running the business at a critical time, as we were simultaneously scrambling to prepare for our first holiday season at Fab. As our “one thing” at Fab.com is design, I put a lot of thought and consideration into how we might design our fundraising process differently from the norm, so as to optimize around time spent fundraising vs. running the business, and to quickly hone in on who we wanted to marry. Venture Growth Capital. One final note. P.s. Top 10 Ed-Tech Startups of 2011. 23 and 1/2 hours: What is the single best thing we can do for our health? Collective Intelligence in the Palm of Your Hand. From Dick Tracy's "two-way wrist communicator" to Star Trek's tricorders to the easily cloned cellphones in the new techno-thriller TV series Person of Interest, something important has happened.
The iconic tool of the savior hero has undergone a triple evolution: It is ever more capable, ever closer to the tools of the writer's own time, and ever more integrated into our technological networks and cultural mind. But these devices do more than tap collective intelligence: They augment that collective intelligence, subliminally symbolizing the benefits we can all share in a technological here-and-now that science fiction more usually suggests we should dread. Disqus: What devices have made us smarter? Person of Interest postulates a "machine" that hacks into all existing communication and surveillance devices, seeking patterns that warn of large-scale terrorist threats.
According to CBS executives, this show garnered the highest ratings of any drama pilot in the last 15 years. Chromaroma, An Online Game For London Underground Riders. (1) Google+ What’s New for Social Media in 2012? What’s New for Social Media in 2012? It’s reaching the end of the year and people will be looking to new studies that point the way to trends in social and business for 2012. Two recent studies point the way to some of the trends that companies should watch for in the coming year. The new report from Pivot is called The State of Social Marketing 2011 – 2012 and it has some interesting findings. Along with The Hudson Group, Pivot surveyed 181 brand managers, agency professionals, and experts to find out how they plan to reach their social consumers in 2012.
Pivot asked if respondents had a clear picture of who their social consumer is. This is interesting because it is all perception on the part of the companies. Another one of the best ways to figure out who your social consumers are is simple: Ask them. 100% of respondents say increased sales is a primary goal for 2012, but there are many other practical applications for social media that also ranked highly. 3 Lessons Learned from the Carrier IQ Falderal. The revelation two weeks ago from security researcher Trevor Eckhart (see YouTube video) that performance measurement software installed by carriers on Android phones record dialer keystrokes, resulted in the almost autonomous generation of Web stories asking rhetorical questions, in the vein of, "Is your smartphone spying on you?
" Web publications have a tendency to ask such questions without particularly being interested in whether anyone actually comes up with an answer. So it's almost no surprise that when another security researcher did find the answer, few publications actually noticed. Now that the facts are in front of us, we have the opportunity to take a more sober assessment of their actual meaning: Metrics must never be taken without the user's knowledge. Prior to Eckhart's discovery, the problem with Carrier IQ was not that it was used to assess the performance characteristics of Android (and other) phones, and the differences between them. Mark It Down: June 6, 2012.
“Six months from now you’ll say the opposite. Because ultimately applications vendors are driven by volume. And the volume is favored by the open approach that Google is taking.” That was Google Chairman Eric Schmidt speaking at LeWeb a couple days ago. Specifically, he was addressing a question from the audience wondering why most big application developers are still choosing to develop for the iOS platform first instead of Android. First of all, if you haven’t watched Schmidt’s entire talk with Loic Le Meur yet, you really should. While Schmidt was misquoted, the core of this latest debate around iOS and Android remains very much intact.
Of course, my stance is going to be that there’s no way he’s going to be right about that. In fact, I’m not even sure he would say the same thing again if pressed. The audience member who asked the question clearly did so because Android already is the dominant player in the space. Yes, that has been a problem — a huge one. That was seven months ago. ThingSpeak: apps for social things. Inside P&G's digital revolution - McKinsey Quarterly - Retail & Consumer Goods - Strategy & Analysis. Robert McDonald is a CEO on a mission: to make Procter & Gamble the most technologically enabled business in the world. To get there, the 31-year company veteran and former US Army captain is overseeing the large-scale application of digital technology and advanced analytics across every aspect of P&G’s operations and activities—from the way the consumer goods giant creates molecules in its R&D labs to how it maintains relationships with retailers, manufactures products, builds brands, and interacts with customers.
The prize: better innovation, higher productivity, lower costs, and the promise of faster growth. Podcast Inside P&G's digital revolution DownloadListen to more of the interview, including Robert McDonald’s views on radio-frequency identification (RFID) tracking technology and the growing use of smartphones in developing markets. Real-time insights Our purpose at P&G is to touch and improve lives; everything we do is in that context. One way is through consumer feedback. Visualizing the Agency of the Future. @alaa charged with murder? How confusion from a mistaken news story played out on Twitter · acarvin. The Future Premises Network, Part 1 - Corporate Blog - Dialogic Exchange Network.
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