I attended training on making compelling presentations last year – and one thing that was stressed was the use of imagery to drive points home. Although there have been images in my posts to date, they have been utilitarian – not sources of imagery. I need to do better with […]
Communication / Presentation / Requirements / Requirements gathering
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Active Listening and Cultural Cues – When No Means Yes
Without good communication skills, you won’t understand what the stakeholders want. And you won’t structure and describe the requirements in a way that the developers will implement what you intend.
For a given project, there are three sets of requirements – the requirements you are given, the requirements you document, and the requirements that are interpreted by the delivery team.
Requirements
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Spec writer wanted
Tom Chi, has a new article at OK/Cancel about the needs and challenges of having a detailed functional spec. He throws open the floor for folks to comment on what works for them. As a long time reader of OK/Cancel, I can tell you that they will get a bunch […]
Communication / Requirements / Requirements gathering / Writing
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A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Requirements
Object oriented analysis and design (OOA/OOD) is a technique used to gather requirements and develop software, as an alternative to more traditional text-based techniques.
OOA allows for clarity of communication, by creating descriptive and unambiguous documentation of requirements. It comes with a great big giant caveat –
Communication / Consulting / Presentation
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It’s not business, it’s just personal
Having the best powerpoint presentation (thanks to Presentation Zen and Beyond Bullets, this is possible) is not sufficient to persuade. We have to craft personal messages. We have to be interactive, and adapt our presentations as we present – maybe even discard them entirely, and craft the key points of our messages into a conversation lead by the people to whom we are presenting.
Administrivia
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Tyner Blain logo RC1
I put together a candidate logo tonight – any feedback is welcome.
Requirements management software
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Consolodation in the RM Software space?
SteelTrace is targeted as a likely takeover candidate in this post from the Computer Business Review online. Borland (CaliberRM) and Teleologic (DOORS) are the most likely suitors identified in the article.
Requirements
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Composition In Requirements
This post isn’t about composition of requirements. It is about using the object-oriented concept of composition when expressing requirements. Composition is the notion that one object or entity is made up of multiple smaller objects. Grady Booch’s Object Oriented Analysis and Design with Applications (2nd Edition), is the de facto […]
Marketing
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Ideavirus – Marketing By Word Of Mouth
When you launch a new software product, or start a new blog, or a website, one way to get the word out is by viral marketing. Thanks to this post on the Presentation Zen website, I found a great presentation by Seth Godin here. Lots of good examples, from Google […]