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Logical Requirements

By Scott Sehlhorst | December 4th, 2006

We talk about characteristics of good requirements, including completeness, correctness, and ambiguity. But how do we assure that our requirements are complete, correct, and unambiguous? Simple, Captain, with logic.

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Quality and Requirements – You Got Chocolate In My Peanut Butter

By Scott Sehlhorst | August 7th, 2006

Quality writers are writing about requirements. Requirements writers are writing about quality. Just like the Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup – Two Great Tastes that Taste Great Together. You can’t have one without the other.

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Companies Will Waste $1B This Year on Software Tools

By Scott Sehlhorst | June 22nd, 2006

Gartner reported that companies spent $3.7 Billion USD on application development tools in 2004, with a 5% annual growth rate. The Standish Group has shown that 40% to 60% of project failures are due to requirements failures. At least 1/3 of the money spent on getting more efficient at coding is being wasted – it should be spent on writing the right software.