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November 2, 2007 - 6:55am — IBMer
Blog topics: 
Agile & User Experience

IBM Press has another good book out (on the heels of Do It Wrong Quickly).

My copy is still being shipped, so I have not looked at the book in detail. From what I have heard / read, the "outside-in / stakeholder" theme merges Agile methods (stakeholder = "Agile customer") and user experience methods (stakeholder = "end user"). "Consumability" and "Outside-in design" are key parts of the IBM Software strategy. (Consumability: making products easier to install, configure, deploy and maintain.)

To learn more about the book, you can see previews on Safari and read Carl's blog Outside-in Thinking [URL update on Nov-16-2007]. And of course, Amazon.com's entry for the book (where I managed to buy a "used" copy that is new but very inexpensive, not sure how that works).

Comments

March 9, 2008 - 8:02am — dbDeveloper

Great IBM book, this book was a good read. "Outside-in Software Development" is about looking at software from the point of view of the stakeholders. As such, it contains definitions of the different types of stakeholders after the chapter one sales pitch. I like this.