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I’ve been reading and playing with effect maps lately. I’m finding it a useful practice for product strategy and planning. If you’re not familiar with the subject, have a look at some of the following links:

• Effect management is my guiding light – Marten Angner gives a brief overview of effect mapping/management.
• Agile product management using effect maps – Gojko Adzic’s brief white paper on the subject, which brings together agile product ownership ideas with the effect mapping practice.
• Effect mapping handbook – Gojko’s deeper dive on the subject.
• A few presentations by the Swedish firm inUse, the originators of the effect mapping practice:
  • The product owner’s dilemma and how to solve it
  • Effect management made simple
  • IT for humans
• The page for my pinboard items about effect mapping

We’ve got a project cooking at the office where some of this stuff may come in handy.

Development tools:
* Processing – Java-based tool for building visualizations.
* D3.js – Nice little Javascript library. Very cool transformations. Some of the examples are mind-blowing.
* Protovis.js – The predecessor to D3. Recommended on a recent UIE podcast.

Books:
* Beautiful Visualization
* Visualize This
* Visualizing Data
* And of course, anything by Edward Tufte

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