http://www.technorati.com/search/tynerblain.wordpress.com The newness of the blog has placed us at an absurdly low rank. Let’s see how long it takes to climb. First goal: Outrank existing, dead blogs with no new posts in the last year.
Process Improvement / Requirements / Testing
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Requirements and Software Development Process and Where Bugs Come From
[Ed: This post was retitled, edited, and updated as Where bugs come from due to recurring issues for some readers with accessing this page. Please read the updated version (there are some revisions to the content and new links to other content). Thanks]
Requirements
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Telescopes, Microscopes, and Macro-scopes – How to View Requirements
Writing good requirements is more than just taking dictation. It is about documenting the goals and needs of the stakeholders (users, project sponsors, etc), in language that the creators of the system (developers, testers, etc) can read. The requirements have to be complete and correct, and they also have to […]
Requirements / Slightly off-topic / UX
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Concept Maps – Great Tool for Eating the Elephant (Brainstorming Ideas for a New Product)
Concept mapping is a tool I use for the brainstorming process of defining a product’s specification. IHMC developed the concept mapping software that we show in this article
Slightly off-topic
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Collision Detection
I was doing a code-read for a team member earlier this year, and stumbled upon an elegant algorithm. This is super-simple, I realize, but I believe it’s a great example of avoiding complexity. Einstein said it best – “as simple as possible, but no simplerâ€. Problem : Given two solid […]
Administrivia
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Welcome to Tyner Blain
Howdy! I’ve set up this blog to keep track about thoughts I have in the software development space. I’m Scott Sehlhorst, president of Tyner Blain LLC. I wear a bunch of hats, playing different roles throughout the software development process. Tyner Blain was founded with two goals – helping customers […]