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Business Analysis / Communication / Consulting / Requirements / Writing
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Requirements Writing Style and Synonyms
A rose by any other name… When we’re learning how to write in high school and college, we’re taught that synonyms make our writing more exciting. In fact, not using synonyms can make our prose clumsy and awkward. When it comes to requirements, the last thing you want to do […]
Flashback
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Flashback: A Year Ago This Week on Tyner Blain [2006-11-03]
A look back at the best from a year ago.
Flashback
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Flashback: A Year Ago This Week on Tyner Blain [2006-06-16]
A look back at the best from a year ago.
Flashback
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Flashback: A Year Ago This Week on Tyner Blain [2006-06-02]
A look back at the best from a year ago.
Business Analysis / Product Management / Requirements / Writing
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Writing Stylish Requirements
You knew it would happen eventually, the big ten rules of writing requirements has become the big twelve rules. Maybe scope creep isn’t such a bad thing after all. Writing style plays an important role in writing requirements too.
Agile / Communication / Process Improvement / Project Management / Software development / Testing
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Crossing The Desert With Bad Project Planning
Johanna Rothman recently wrote an article with a poignant introduction: “A project team focuses on an interim milestone, works like the devil to meet that milestone. They meet the milestone, look up, and realize they’re not at the end of the project–they still have to finish the darn thing. They’re living the Crossing the Desert syndrome.” Fixing it isn’t enough – how do we prevent it from happening?
CMMI / Process Improvement / Software development
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Software Product Delivery – 20 Rules?
Rishikesh Tembe shared twenty rules for software product delivery last month. His rules are from the perspective of a former software developer. Some we like. Some, not so much.
Communication / Requirements / Writing
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Logical Requirements
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.