I found myself last year working on a UI heavy project, in which we were specifying detailed requirements associated with individual UI elements. One of the elements that the customer
Our company is currently doing an evaluation of our consultants and support staff using Strength Finder 2.0. I was skeptical at the beginning of this process, but I’ve been impressed
After I’ve solved the same problem half a dozen times, even I start to notice patterns. Pattern recognition is an important skill for people doing requirements. However, if you don’t
My wife and I recently set up one of our spare bedrooms using a bed frame that had been handed down in my family. We didn’t have a full size
There was recently an interesting post by John Mansour on the Austin PMM Forum (registration required) discussing whether Product Knowledge was an Asset or Liability to product managers. The author
Negotiation is an important part of getting any project right. It’s rare for a project not to have any conflicting priorities or competing objectives. How do we handle this as
As a requirements consultant, I frequently find myself working with new clients. I don’t always have a lot of context to their particular systems, projects, or problems. But I do
I’m not sure how this came up, but when you get a collection of requirements experts in a room for social occasions, odd things happen. Sometimes, those odd things take
Much of the training that we give business analysts relates to requirements elicitation from Subject Matter Experts. We help business analysts to make the appropriate preparations for interviews, and teach
I spent some time this month working on a requirements modeling application based on a connection to the Borland CaliberRM database using the Caliber SDK. This was a lot of
There was a neat article in the July 13 Dr Dobbs Agile Modeling Newsletter. https://www.ddj.com/dept/architect/201001273 It basically argued that you could evaluate the quality of a document based on a
I’ve traditionally been somewhat neutral on what amount of design gets slipped into a requirements document. I’m a consultant, and to a certain extent, I’m willing to accept that the
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