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Entries from April 2008

Requirement Ranking - No, No, No to High, Medium or Low

Posted April 25th, 2008 by Steven Davis

Many software development teams today are faced with developing twice as much in half the time for even less budget. The risks this imposes to the business expecting and needing the software is much too high. A mechanism to deal with the risk is to rank and then prioritize requirements. Ranking requirements […]

Risk-Based Quality Management

Posted April 24th, 2008 by Tracy Lynne Dedore

Risk-based quality management is a new approach to risk mitigation in the end-to-end quality effort which has a critical linkage to requirements and requirements traceability.
In developing requirements, you have to consider both the business and the IT risk of implementing new capabilities. The notion of being able to capture both dimensions of risk, by […]

Carey Schwaber Webinar next Tuesday on RQNG

Posted April 23rd, 2008 by Matt Morgan

Carey Schwaber, Sr. Analyst at Forrester, is conducting a free webinar entitled QUALITY REQUIREMENTS EQUALS QUALITY SOFTWARE: An Independent Analyst discusses Requirements Definition.
From the abstract:
Join featured guest Forrester Research Sr. Analyst, Carey Schwaber and the Requirements.net consortium as we discuss how IT organizations can transform business and IT alignment through precise requirements […]

Requirements Unplugged Podcast: Episode Eight

Posted April 15th, 2008 by Keith Barrett

There’s more to collaboration than conversation…
For those who might think that collaboration is just another word for conversation, I would suggest you listen to Requirements Unplugged Episode 8. Ellen Gottesdiener, author of Requirements by Collaboration: Workshops for Defining Needs, shares her deep experience with us regarding what it takes to truly collaborate. As with any […]

Requirements Unplugged Podcast: Episode Seven

Posted April 11th, 2008 by Keith Barrett

How do Agile methods impact the role of the Business Analyst?
This was the question we wanted answers to, and the folks at VersionOne, were willing to help us out. They offered up Certified Scrum Master Mike Cottmeyer and Certified Scrum Trainer Lee Henson (bios below) to address our questions. VersionOne is a leader in the […]

Prioritizing Requirements

Posted April 9th, 2008 by Patrick Walsh

One key factor that is often overlooked or underestimated during requirements elicitation is prioritizing requirements. If there are 150 documented itemized requirements, and 147 can be met by a software solution, you may think that would be a great percentage to have. But what if the 3 requirements that were not/cannot be met were the […]

Elicit Requirements for Business Needs, not Wants

Posted April 3rd, 2008 by Steven Davis

The following is a mission statement for every software development or maintenance team:

To promise and deliver to the business,
on time and within budget,
innovative software
that meets end user needs and expectations
requiring minimal rework and maintenance.
This mission statement says a lot but let’s focus on business needs this time. […]

Eliciting Requirements and Linking Them Downstream

Posted April 2nd, 2008 by Tracy Lynne Dedore

In the context of a software project or application, requirements management is the translation of the business goals and objectives into a realized, software-enabled business process. Requirements are really a complex chain of business, technical, functional, performance and security requirements that drive a complex chain of activities with a lot of involvement from […]

Requirements Unplugged Podcast: Episode Six

Posted April 1st, 2008 by Keith Barrett

Episode 6 of the Requirements.net Podcast is now available!
In this episode, Alistair continues his thoughts on how getting into the mind of the user differs from the traditional idea of gathering requirements. Listen as he explains how the focus needs to shift from authoring documents full of textual lists of requirements to an approach that […]