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Requirements.net is home of the industry consortium for business analysis. Through focus on requirements definition, visualization, and management, the companies behind Requirements.net are driven to share and sponsor best practices and technologies to improve industry requirements practices.

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Entries from March 2008

Requirements Unplugged Podcast: Episode Two

Posted March 4th, 2008 by Matt Morgan

The Requirements.net Podcast series “Requirements Unplugged” continues — episode two is now available.
In episode two, Keith Barrett and myself have special guest David Nyland, President and CEO of Blueprint speak about the intellectual property the Blueprint team is contributing to the Requirements.net consortium which includes a whitepaper on the relationship with […]

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Whitepaper Available: Requirements in Distributed Agile Projects

Posted March 3rd, 2008 by Matt Morgan

Per last week’s post, Martin Crisp, the Chief Technology Officer of Blueprint, has contributed a new white paper to the Requirements.net consortium on requirements in an AGILE world. This white paper is now available through Requirements.net.
Martin’s white paper discusses how Requirements Definition for iterative/AGILE development efforts must take a visual approach, allowing for […]

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Good Requirements are more than just Accurate

Posted March 3rd, 2008 by Matt Morgan

Jonathan Babcock has posted a very interesting blog entry on the “precision” problem in the requirements definition process. Jonathan draws an interesting distinction between “accurate” requirements vs. “precise” requirements.
To quote his post:
Natural language is inherently ambiguous
The odds are stacked against the BA when it comes to writing requirements that are both accurate […]

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