Almost a month ago, we published an article titled Broken Requirements Ecosystem. That article built on a discussion thread at Seilevel. Since that time, the original thread has grown, and a new one has been spawned at the Catalyze site. In short, the question was asked on the Seilevel forum- […]
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?
Agile / Process Improvement / Software development / Software requirements specification / Test Automation / Testing
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Insight Into Test Driven Development
James Kovacs shares a great insight on software testing and the software testing process. His epiphany about test driven development makes it obvious to all of us why this technique is so powerful.
Lists / Product Management / Requirements / Software requirements specification / Writing
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Writing Good Requirements – The Big Ten Rules
Pragmatic Marketing has a training seminar called Requirements That Work. In support of that, they provide a list of 8 characteristics of good requirements. We change one and add two more to round it out to The Big Ten Rules. Combine this with Michael’s ten tips for writing MRDs, and we’ve got a good handle on how to create a great MRD.
Communication / Requirements / Requirements management software / Software requirements specification / Writing
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Requirements Document Proliferation
Too many companies don’t document their requirements.
Worse still, too many companies over-document their requirements.