Looking for better visualization plug-in for Epics, User Stories, and User Story Map

A user story map arranges user stories into a useful model to help understand the functionality of the system, identify holes and omissions in your backlog, and effectively plan holistic releases that delivery value to users and business with each release.  

But, when you use Excel, PPT or even Jira, then the whole thing looks just too darn complicated.  Any good visualization plug-in out there to take content from excel or Jira and visualize it for anyone to navigate better a user story map?

Fun coverage of Tech Buzz - Steve Jobs, Leo / WebOS, Facebook catchup, the Dancing Dror

Nice productivity app with page building and UI aggregation on iPhone/Pod/Pad - #Springpad

Ian Kimbell breaks it down the why, what and how of In Memory technology with #SAP #HANA

8 min. look into the future of SAP next-gen DMBS packaged with pre-defined scenarios, best practices and services for enterprise customers to be instantly productive with in-memory technology:

How can SAP take advantage of Google unleashing Native Client into Chrome?

Intro: http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/11/chrome-native-client/

Questions:

• How would SAP GUI integration into Chrome look like with the help of the Native Client  SDK, where parts of the 600 MBs of C++ SAP GUI code gets executed in the browser?
• Would that be appreciated by customers who seek portable, high-performance web apps from their Business Suite systems, or do they already have much of that in place?
• What kind of cool enterprise things can be imagined with the Pepper Plug-in API, bridging HTML5 and desktop APIs and features?

Potential benefits according to Google's SDK documentation:

• Native Client enables you to reuse current software modules in a web app—you don't need to spend time reinventing and debugging code that's already proven to work well.
• You can port and recompile existing code for the computation engine of your application to Native Client and need repurpose only the user interface and event handling portions to the new browser platform.
• To ensure protection of user data, Native Client enables you to build complex cryptographic algorithms directly into the browser so that unencrypted data never goes out over the wire.
• Native Client modules are stored with the rest of your application on a web server. In the future, you will be able to use the Chrome Web Store to publish your app where Google Chrome users can easily find it. 

While a senior exec position leads to a slightly increased health risk, a job with no control is significantly more dangerous #WIRED

Are Your Co-Workers Killing You?

• By Jonah Lehrer  

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/08/are-your-co-workers-killing-you/

- should I do yoga? take long walks? not watch television? — the amount of time we might spend in downward facing dog pose pales in comparison to the amount of time we spend seated in our chair, staring at the computer screen, surrounded by co-workers.

- the magnitude of the “friendly colleague effect” is a bit unsettling: people with little or no “peer social support” in the workplace were 2.4 times more likely to die during the study, especially if they began the study between the ages of 38 and 43. In contrast, the niceness of the boss had little impact on mortality.

- if he or she has a high degree of control over work, it is less stressful and will have less impact on health

 

The High-Intensity Entrepreneur #HBR podcast

227_The_New_Global_Entrepreneur[1].mp3 Listen on Posterous

The common DNA / background pattern for a high-intensity enterpreneur:

R Worked for many years at a multinational corporation (MNC) with tremendous depth of experience and network

R In early 30s

R Wants to build a high-growth, rapidly scalable business