Year: 2011
What Makes Good Requirements
With this blog post, Jim Hertzfeld list the characteristics of good requirements according to the IEEE standards and starts a series on on how these characteristics can improve requirements on your project.
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Business Analysis and Agile Development
Lisa Crispin interviews Mary Gorman about getting “just enough” information about desired behavior of a new feature without creeping into “Big Up Front Design” which is a balancing act for many Agile practitioners.
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Non-Functional Requirements Cost Estimation
In this blog post, Mike Cohn explains that for non-functional requirement you should estimate both the costs of initial compliance and then the costs of ongoing compliance.
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User Story Length
Story writing is usually taught now as a singsong “As a I want so that .” The writer should then immediately document acceptance criteria in the form of a constraint list or automated acceptance tests. Many consider it poor form to create a story that someone outside the team can’t understand from its documentation alone. […]
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Use Cases Definition by Usability.gov
Usability.gov is the primary government source for information on usability and user-centered design. The web site has a page dedicated to use cases that explains what they are and how to use them.
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