Tag Archives: managing requirements

Requirements Management Journey – Part 0

Requirements Management – I’m embarking on a journey to help several teams manage their requirements with their existing systems and tools.  This is the first in a series of articles, where the rubber meets the road.  I’ll look at both the theory and the realities of what works (and doesn’t) in practice.  I hope you’ll come along for the ride.
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Global Actor Hierarchies and Personas

We use actor hierarchies to organize the different users of a system. Different people play different roles, and thus do different jobs. We use different actors to identify and organize those people. When deploying a system globally, we usually discover people that do the same jobs, but do them differently. Incorporating the notion of personas lets us deal with this.

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Flashback: A Year Ago This Week on Tyner Blain [2005-12-30]

A look back at the best from a year ago.

The Impact of Change and Use Cases

Market requirements change. These changes impact the use cases that support the changing requirements. Functional requirements change. These changes impact the use cases that they support. How can we leverage use cases to manage these changes? And how can we manage changes to use cases?

Foundation Series: Data Dictionary Definition

What is a data dictionary and how is it used when communicating and managing requirements?