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 […]
Agile / Agile Project: Ratings / Business Analysis / Product Management / Software development
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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 […]
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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 […]
Administrivia / Agile / Agile Project: Ratings / Software development
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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…
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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 […]
Agile / Product Management / Software development / Test Automation / Testing
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Is Agile Bad For Software Development?
Last week, Ivan Chalif, a product manager / blogger, tapped into a thread criticising product managers for not adopting and espousing agile, or at least rapid-release techniques. In this article we look at Ivan’s comments and one of the articles that he referenced. We also share our own perspective and an alternative analysis of what may have happened.
Flashback
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Flashback: A Year Ago This Week on Tyner Blain [2006-04-14]
A look back at the best from a year ago.
Administrivia
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Updated Theme With More For You
In lieu of an article today, we’re updating our theme. There are a bunch of minor improvements, and two major ones. New visitors and regular members of the community should both benefit from the changes.
Business Analysis / Requirements / Requirements Models / Software development / Testing / Use Cases
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The Difference Between Use Cases and Test Cases
People who are new to software, requirements, or testing often ask “What’s the difference between a use case and a test case?” This article answers that question, by building on earlier articles about use cases and use case scenarios. At the soundbite level, each use case has one or more scenarios, and each use case scenario would lead to the creation of one or more test cases.