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.
Foundation series / Requirements / Requirements gathering
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Foundation Series: JAD Sessions
JAD is an acronym that stands for Joint Application Design. JAD sessions are collaborative meetings where the customers meet with developers to determine what the product needs to be or do.
Process Improvement / Requirements / Software development
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Skip The Requirements, Empower The Developers
Enough of the debates about requirements and what we call them. Why don’t we just hire great developers and empower them to work directly with the customers?
Requirements
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Abstraction And “Requirements”
I don’t know how many of our readers have reached a conclusion to this debate, but we have for now. Thanks to everyone who has contributed to, enjoyed, or at least tolerated this ongoing discussion. Roger had some good comments in our previous article – we’ll try and address one of his points here. His point, I believe, is that using the word “requirements” to describe multiple levels of abstraction in the definition of a product is a bad thing.
Requirements
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Requirement Naming – Stick A Fork In It?
The discussion about requirements and the naming of things continues? Can we stick a fork in it already? Maybe, but probably not. Catch up on the cross-blog discussion with Roger and Adam.
Requirements / Requirements Models / Use Cases
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Subordinate and Superordinate Use Cases
Use Cases can be built up by combining other use cases. When a use case is made up of other use cases, the component use cases are known as subordinate use cases. The “parent” use case is referred to as the superordinate use case. This is known as composition. See an example of how composition works for use cases.
Administrivia
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Happy Birthday Tyner Blain!
The Tyner Blain blog is a year old today! Look back at some of our stats, including most popular posts, and a little bragging (not too much, we hope)!
Design / Interaction design / Prioritization / Requirements / Software development / Software requirements specification / UX
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Fifteen Ways to Shut Down
There are 15 ways for someone to shutdown a laptop running Windows Vista. This adds unwarranted complexity to our software. How can we avoid the same problem in our software?
Slightly off-topic
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Gifts for Geeks: Pre-Black Friday
Many of us who are part of the Tyner Blain community are geeks, gadget hounds, and people who read books that make you think. All of us know someone like this. Tyner Blain is a mostly-for-free site – we just ask that you remember our name, join in on the […]