When you are building a software solution to solve a particular problem, you would be very focused on solving the problem and solving it well. However, from time to time you need supporting components in your solution that are not directly related to the problem you are solving. These are components that are required to complete your solution. Maybe its a payment system for your online greeting card service, or a spell checker component for [...]

You’ve got traffic? We normally use funnel diagrams to understand the flow of a user through our website, to the application, and then onto the purchase pages (or not). Some great tools are out there and just last week @Indu blogged about using Funnels & Goals in Google Analytics to better understand your funnel and conversion rates. This week, we went and applied the same to our traffic funnel in three steps. Identify how our potential [...]

Creately Video Tutorial #4 – Fast Flowcharts with Creately Today, we show you how to create a fast and easy flowchart to share with your team and clients. In 3 mins flat, we’ll show you why our 1-click Create-N-Connect buttons, easy collaboration and built-in commenting features make Creately the best online flowchart software. Creately Video Tutorial #4 – Fast Flowcharts with Creately

An application failing to respond is no big deal and troubleshooting is no rocket science!! But we end up cursing the application each time it fails to respond. Not everyone is a techie; and every time we have issues we run to IT support or our friends for help. Now thanks to Thomas Boito (First Steps in Troubleshooting),  you needn’t hassle your tech-savvy friends anymore. This flowchart by Thomas created with Creately.com illustrates the first [...]

Last week before Charan left to Hyderabad to attend the TiE-ISB event, he asked me to come up with some useful diagrams to demonstrate the power of Creately. As usual I was active during my power hours of 10p.m. to 3 a.m. generating ideas. I had random ideas running through my head, but didn’t quite understand the importance of each of them. So even before I figured out the effort required to build a diagram, [...]