Requirements
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When Are Lean Software Requirements Too Lean? Most people know that agile doesn't completely eliminate documentation, but it's a little less clear just how lean we can really make our requirements without sacrificing quality. Mickey Merritt shares how to stay agile with requirements that are just the right fit for getting the job done. |
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What Role Does Configuration Management Play in Requirements Analysis? Once the inception phase of your project has been completed, a project will enter the requirements analysis phase. Joe Townsend explains the role that configuration management (CM) and quality assurance/control (QA/QC) plays during this phase of a project’s lifecycle. |
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Managing the Stream of Features in an Agile Program If you keep a stream of features moving in a program—even with many feature teams—you are OK as long as the project teams keep talking to one another. You are not OK, however, if someone decides, “I own this code and no one else can touch it.” Johanna Rothman says how agile programs should operate. |
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Book Review: Discover to Deliver—Agile Product Planning and Analysis Discover to Deliver—Agile Product Planning and Analysis, Ellen Gottesdiener's and Mary Gorman's book, is for software teams that are good at creating software but struggle to create the right value. The authors show techniques to help you adapt to the specific delivery method you're using. |
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The Importance of "Occasional User" Requirements Occasional users are likely to go back to more traditional, offline methods if the online equivalent isn’t immediately intuitive. There is little benefit for taking time to learn the system—as they’ll only be using it occasionally. This could impact the business case for moving a process to the web. |
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Book Review: Lean UX—Lean Principles to Improve User Experience Steve Berczuk reviews Lean UX: Applying Lean Principles to Improve User Experience by Jeff Gothelf and Josh Seiden. Through its stories, templates, and guidelines on agile user-experience design, this book will help your team do a better job of building in the best user experience possible. |
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Using Crowd Wisdom as a Marketing Tool Crowdsourcing in its various forms has become a powerful technique used to connect with the end users and community, to engage with them, and to leverage their wisdom. While each form is powerful in its own right, crowd wisdom is becoming an important and inevitable marketing tool. |
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Managing "But We Need This" Requests from Stakeholders Product owners are constantly beset with a continuous stream of requests for the urgent, the important, and the marginal. The assumption implicit in such requests is that there is room for more of the "but we need this" requests to be filled. |
