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  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 or Low):Customer ...

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, like RSS Bandit, you have to uncheck ...

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 that my (mostly) non-technical posts ...

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)    

Scott Sehlhorst started a Use Case series (Tyner Blain » Use case series: Introduction) and as we share some common interests, he asked me to comment on it. I started commenting today and looking forward to his reactions.

I wrote a sample Use-Case specification, which will be used as a sample on upcoming posts and articles on this blog. It relates to the formal Use-Case specification written by Scott W. Ambler in Introduction to System Use Cases. Please feel free to compare the styles used by Scott and by me. This style used is the soon to ...

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.

Lymer, Liu and Easterbrook published Experience in Using Business Scenarios to Assess COTS Components in Integrated Solutions    The use a Scenario Framework (BSF) which is a variation of the scenario-based approaches in requirements engineering, to address some of the challenges faced by COTS component providers.   They ...

In Use Cases Part II: Taming Scope, Norm Carr and Timothy Meehan demonstrate several advantages of using the use-case driven approach to establishing project scope and requirements over more ad hoc practices: The diagrammed model quickly communicates the scope “story” in an accessible way. Everyone involved has a common foundation for the ...