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How to Create a Business Model Canvas in Google Docs

A Business Model Canvas is an easy to use, lightweight and powerful tool for anyone looking to sketch out business models. It is quickly becoming the preferred strategic management tool for start-up organizations.

While it is available in .pdf form from Alex Osterwalder’s site, I couldn’t help but feel that companies could benefit from an online, collaborative version of his template.

So, I asked him…

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How to Create a Burndown Chart in Google Docs

A burndown chart can be used by an agile team to track their progress against a release plan. In its simplest form, the chart consists of time on the X axis and the amount of work on the Y axis.

You can choose to burn down on whatever metrics that are relevant to your team. Since I prefer burning down on story points against iterations, that is what we’ll use for this tutorial.

It only takes a Google Account, a few minutes of your spare time and best of all it’s free!

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Burndown Chart in Google Spreadsheets

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How to Create a Virtual Story Wall in Google Docs

Google recently released an enhancement to Google Docs called Google Drawings. While you can use this is a kind of collaborative work space for wireframes as you might with Visio or Omnigraffle, I’ve found another use for it…

As a virtual story wall for distributed teams.

It only takes a Google Account, a few minutes of your spare time, and most of all it’s free.

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Virtual Story Board in Google Drawing
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