“There is no such thing as a requirement.” - Dr. Alistair Cockburn.

The interview with Dr. Alistair Cockburn is now available in episode five of the Requirements.net Podcast. . In this episode, Matt Morgan, Chief Marketing Officer of Blueprint (www.blueprintsys.com) and Keith Barrett, RLA Practice Manager at SKY IT Group (www.skyitgroup.com) discuss and debate the business value of requirements process improvement.

In this episode, Keith and Matt interview Alistair Cockburn, Alistair is best known for co-authoring the Manifesto for Agile Software Development and for his book Writing Effective Use Cases. He is also an internationally known expert on project management, object-oriented design, and development processes. Dr. Cockburn was special advisor to the Central Bank of Norway in 1998. He has worked in companies of all sizes, from startups to Fortune 100 companies, around the world, from China to the U.S., Scandinavia to South Africa. Many of his materials are available online at http://alistair.cockburn.us.

Episode 6 will have the concluding segment of the interview.

Download it here.