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Links of Interest
The IconProcess staff recommends these web sites for further information. Many of these sites will help your team build the essential skills necessary for efficient execution of the IconProcess. Others in this list provide additional ideas that may prove helpful when customizing your own development process.

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Marketing and Branding

AdRelevance
Check out the "Intelligence" section for white papers, statistics and analysis about online advertising.

BtoB
The magazine for marketing and e-commerce strategists.

ClickZ Today
A great source for news and ideas about Internet marketing and advertising.

eMarketer
Source for Internet statistics and other online marketing information.

FutureBrand
An international branding company.

Interbrand Papers
White papers by Interbrand and other branding experts. The site also features critiques of online branding.

KnowThis
A resource for marketing basics, market research, Internet marketing, marketing plans, advertising and much more.

MarcommWise
Information on marketing and communications. Has several calculators to estimate profitability for different types of campaigns.

Business Strategy

Booz Online
Booz Alan & Hamilton's site. Contains white papers and summaries of their studies.

eBusiness Forum
Business intelligence information. The "doing business in..." section provides market profiles and research on a country-by-country basis.

Center for Business Innovation
Publications by Cap Gemini Ernst & Young consultants.

eCommerce Times
News about e-commerce business.

Forrester
Business intelligence and strategy research.

Harvard Business Review
Excerpts are free. Full articles must be purchased.

Jupiter Media Metrix
Jupiter Media Metrix research reports.

MagPortal
Magazine portal to current strategy and management articles from a variety of magazines.

MIT's Sloan Management Review
Excerpts are free. Full articles must be purchased.

McKinsey Quarterly
McKinsey quarterly journal focusing on business issues.

NUA
Information on Internet demographics and trends.

Quick MBA
A quick description of Michael Porter's 5 forces model for industry analysis.

Software Development Methodologies and General Process

Agile Modeling
Principles and practices for modeling in a lightweight, agile manner, related to XP.

The New Methodology
A discussion about lightweight methodologies.

The Rational Edge
Rational Software Corporation's e-zine on software development.

Software Engineering Institute
The Software Engineering Institute's site with information on the Capability Maturity Model (CMM).

Web Site Production Management Techniques
Macromedia's web guide to techniques for efficiently and consistently delivering excellent user experiences.

Scott Ambler's Online Writing
Scott Ambler's extensive set of articles covering object and architectural modeling and related development issues. Many are from his monthly column in Software Development Magazine.

Information Architecture and Usability

10 questions about Information Architecture
Article on Zdnet explaining the basics of Information Architecture.

Argus Center for Information Architecture
Great collection of articles and interviews along with surveys regarding IA.

ASIS&T Summit 2001 presentations
Most of the presentations given at the 2001 ASIST summit on IA.

ASIS&T SIG on Information Architecture
The website for the Special Interest Group on IA. Still in its initial stages.

Elegant Hack
Christina Wodtke's website on many things Internet, with a special emphasis on IA. You may find many resources and links to other weblogs of interest.

For Use
Larry Constantine & Lucy Lockwood's approach to building usable systems and sites. Combines essential use cases with task modeling, information architecture, user interface design, and more.

Goodexperience
A weekly column on the developments of the IA and usability scene.

Interaction Architect
To promote the design of useful and interactive sites.

Jesse James Garrett
Jesse James Garrett's links to his and other people's work on IA.

UI Design
A webzine for interaction designers.

Usable Web
A broad repository of articles and links to resources on usability.

Useit
Jakob Nielsen's famous website on usability, it includes Alertbox, his weekly newsletter on usability.

Use Cases

For Use
Larry Constantine & Lucy Lockwood's approach to building usable systems and sites. Combines essential use cases with task modeling, information architecture, user interface design, and more.

UseCases.org
Alistair Cockburn's site devoted to writing use cases.

Object and Component Technologies

Cetus Links
With over 18,000 well organized links, this site gives you access to the new and the old thinking about objects, components, distributed systems, architecture, programming languages, databases, process, the Internet and more.

Testing

Software Testing Hotlist
Bret Pettichord's link list covering all aspects of testing.

Testing Craft
A collection of techniques plus a forum for testers. This site is run by Brian Marick.

Testing Stuff
Kerry Zallar's annotated links to testing organizations, conferences, tools, and services.

The Software Testing & Quality Engineering Magazine
Practical information about software testing, tools, and techniques.

UsableNet
A source for Web usability technology, offering Web-based services and computer software to Web development professionals.

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