A lot of the popular literature, training, documentation and processes related to the management of Software Requirements in an organization are typically focused on two constituencies – Users and Developers […]
Tag: Software Development Life Cycle
Don’t do Requirements Traceability
Number 7 in the series, “How to Shoot Yourself in the Foot: 7 ways to do software requirements poorly to set your project up for failure and what to do […]
Don’t Baseline and Change Control Requirements
Number 6 in the series, “How to Shoot Yourself in the Foot: 7 ways to do software requirements poorly to set your project up for failure and what to do […]
Requirements Gathering without Software Development
There’s been a lot written about software requirements gathering as a component of the software development life cycle. Proper requirements are critical to being able to build the right piece […]
Requirements Documentation Standards
We use a set of requirements documentation standards to generate consistency in our writing styles. They should be applied to the documentation produced in the requirements phase of a project, […]
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. […]
Want to know what to build? You just have to ask…
Asking effective questions is undoubtedly one of the most critical skills needed by anyone involved in writing requirements. One-on-one it’s usually called interviewing while group sessions typically involve facilitation. Regardless […]