Ron Lusk's Radio Weblog

Thursday, August 01, 2002

My Orinoco BG-2000 Wireless Broadband Gateway was waiting for me when I arrived at work this morning. I just ordered DSL service from my ISP, Earthlink.

Let the games begin.
1:13:33 PM

Be sure to read Phil's article on Product Management (PDF), referenced in the post.

Product Management.
Dave McNamee is one of the first Utah IT employees to take me up on my offer get started on weblogs. Dave is a product manager in the Information Technology Services division.

One of the first things I did when I took the job as CIO for Utah was to try to introduce the concept of product management. While it might seem funny to think of government as having "products," the discipline's concepts for developing software and online services to meet business needs are as applicable here as they are anywhere.

I wrote a white paper on the subject as an introduction to the discipline. We've also created a product management council for our eGovernment services. We're going through a rather draining process right now which I think will cement many product management concepts into the way we govern cross-agency development.
[Windley's Enterprise Computing Weblog]

11:26:42 AM

For my organization, this could be helpful. Health care is one of the five industries we are in.

History of a health intranet. Just got back from the initial meeting with the Area Health Service. I spent most of the day finding out [Column Two]

11:12:36 AM

Personas & scenarios
I found this link through Column Two. This looks like a form of the “use case” used by developers here and there.

Personas are stories about users, that provide important details about them (including goals, skill levels etc). Scenarios are representative tasks that they need to do. Both remove a mythical 'average user' from the equation and focus on the variety of real users and their goals.

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11:03:10 AM

Also, take a look at Denham Grey's notes on Knowledge Sharing (there is a link to this in the comments on this post, but the link is broken because of an extra double-quote (") character.

John Robb: Knowledge Sharing -- a new buzzword that makes a lot more sense that Knowledge Management. [toolbox]

10:55:07 AM

Back from vacation. I spent a week in Vermont, and a couple of days on the Belgrade Lakes in Maine. (I see that Curiouser and Curiouser has been away the same time, and that Dan Bricklin was in Maine, too.)

Tuesday morning I woke early and walked down to the lake. A mink slithered along the rocks toward me, under the pier, and away. I had never even thought of seeing a mink, just hoped to see a moose.
10:39:36 AM