The last step in our agile software development project was documenting our understanding of our users. In this article, we will define the personas that we will use to guide our design and requirement development. This definition of personas is built by combining our experiences in consulting, product and program […]
APR: Scope and Vision – Vote On It
In the discussion on our article about understanding users as part of our agile software development case study, Rolf raised an interesting question about the scope and vision of having people rate articles: I’m wondering what an ‘article’ is. Does it have characteristics? Is it just some piece of knowledge […]
APR: Understanding Our Users
Continuing the articles in our agile project case study. The next step in our agile requirements management process is to develop an understanding of our target users. We believe a user-centric design approach is important. The user interface should conform to the way our users think about what they are […]
APR: Corporate Goals
Corporate Goals for the Product We have two corporate goals for our agile project. One of them directly drives the features and functionality, and the other one is a driver of a constraint on the implementation approach. Both types of goal are relevant. A process that relies on structured requirements […]
APR: Scope and Vision
To define the boundaries for our agile project, we need to define the scope. To provide a guiding framework for the rest of the work, we need to document the vision. We could create heavy-weight scope documents and vision documents. And we could run them through reviews and get approvals […]
Agile Project: Ratings – Administrivia
This is an administrative post, to help organize the articles in our agile software development experiment. The feedback has been positive so far, so here we go…
Agile Software Development Experiment
We’re considering trying an experiment in agile software development at Tyner Blain. There aren’t (m)any examples of agile software development that we can watch and study that include agile requirements development. Many people still think that agility and requirements management are mutually exclusive. If the responses to this post don’t […]