I got a notice today regarding the next meeting of the Austin PMM chapter where the topic will be Agile Software Development Techniques and Their Impact on Product Management. A […]
Category: Product Management
Requirements Model 1 – The State Table
As Anthony C. said in an earlier blog post, requirements models are a great way to discover missing requirements in your software system. Without a good model, you have no […]
Shall we require – part 2
I was reading through some of our older blog postings and saw the Shall we require post. Joy had asked the question of why use shall and there is a […]
Finding missing requirements
I went to a two day requirements training course the last week which did a great job of covering the basics of requirements. The course was taught by Cheryl Hill […]
Documented Requirements ARE Necessary
It all started with the recent CIO article Fixing the Requirements Mess. A comment by Christopher Creel (halfway down the page) was then put on the Requirements Defined Message Board. […]
One Size Fits None
The November 15, 2005 issue of CIO Magazine leads with the headline “Rethinking Requirements” and includes an article titled Fixing the Requirements Mess. Now, I just know someone is going […]
The Most Important Thing
Last night I was interviewing a candidate and I asked him to tell me the value of a recent project for which he was the lead business analyst. He asked […]
Cnotxet is ciritacl
I came across this the other day. It is a meme that has been making its way around the net for the past couple of years and purports to show […]
Everybody’s Favorite Topic, Software Requirements
Don’t blame me if the title of this seems a bit sarcastic; it’s the opening line Karl Weigers gives for his webinar, Software Requirements: 10 Traps to Avoid. Personally, I […]
A story about usability
Earlier this morning I was working on my first blog post. If I can ever find it again, the topic will be “the most important thing”. Unfortunately you will have […]
Is it possible to overemphasize functional requirements?
Roger Cauvin had an interesting post the other day where he stated that “most organizations place too much emphasis on functional requirements.” The following day he expanded on this position […]
Let’s make a deal!
Joel Spolsky writes here about the penchant that many organizations have for playing Monty Hall when it comes to the fine art of requirement prioritization. You’re likely already familiar with […]