As part of an IBM Rational training on Requirements Management which I regularly deliver at Info Support, is an exercise aimed at prioritizing a set of requirements. In that exercise, students are asked to prioritize a set of requirements giving a set of requirements attributes (all valued High, Medium...
I moved my new blog to http://hij2mc.wordpress.com/ . (hij2mc = how I jump to my conclusions, I continue the name of the blog) I used Blogger some time but changed to Wordpress as it offers better ways to organize your content. The RSS Feed for my blog is: https://hij2mc.wordpress.com/feed On some readers...
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This night I set up a new weblog, How I jump to my conclusions with Blogger at Blogspot.com, since I'm switching from my current employer Infosupport to Getronics PinkRoccade. Unfortunately, Getronics apparently does not (yet?) have a company blogsite. I really enjoyed blogging at Infosupport and heard...
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Top ten tips for preventing innovation -Tyner Blain , Dilbert's manager would not hesitate to implement them:
Scott (Tyner Blane) introduced some (to me) new terms describing approaches he uses to build the right software. The problem he addresses is: how to decide which features to include on your first release. Even though we all know the including 100% of the ‘must have’ requirements rule, that does not differentiate...
We spend too much time on features that are never used, so where do they come from? On the Rational Edge, Laura Rose wrote on Involving customers early and often in a software development project as a solution to this problem. Laura included several sample checklists to help reduce the risk of missing...
Some variants on the Seven Habits of Highly Effective People from Stephen R. Covey From Stephen R. Covey self: Seven Habits Revisited: Seven Unique Human Endowments If you run short of time: Seven Habits Condensed Summaries From Technicat: Seven Habits of Highly Effective Programmers Seven Habits of...
Forget everything you learned the last 20 years and get back on track. Waterfall 2006 - International Conference on Sequential Development Including valuable tutorials from Martin, Cockburn, Beck, Kroll, Kern and many others. Read about the WUP! (Tip from Marike)
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Mike Cohn wrote on Estimating With Use-Case Points for the Methods & Tools newsletter. A had a previous post on a free book on Use-Case Points .
A post by Martin Fowler triggered me into reading about Open Space. Martin used the approach several times on conferences. I'm interested as I assume sometimes there are situations where it can be a valuable approach for gathering and organizing requirements . Open Space Technology is one way to enable...
You invest in something to make it more valuable. Requirements work the same: You are investing in the requirements part of product development to end up with a more valuable product and get it less expensively. Suzanne and James Robertson aim to show you how investing in the requirements part of your...
Amazon, Home Depot, Delta Airlines, Sears, Discover, Morgan Stanley, Microsoft, Toyota and many others have integrated customer personas and scenarios into their strategic planning process . They provide flexibility, adaptability and a real-world usefulness that many business strategy and forecasting...