Articles
Agile Product Management using Effect Maps
Effect maps are charts of project scope which help teams ensure that software delivery is focused on business goals, stakeholders and their needs. Effect Mapping facilitates the implementation of several techniques of agile planning, product design, prioritisation and scoping.
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Capturing Value in Requirements Specification
The requirements specification practices fail to capture value-related information. In addition, managers do not communicate about value and demand to deliver it. This article by Tom Gilb outlines suggestions to tackle these problems and improve the quality of requirements specification.
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Non-Functional Requirements: Do User Stories Really Help?
This interesting article by Rachel Davies discusses if user stories can be used to express non functional requirements in agile software development projects.
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The Product Owner on One Page
Roman Pichler crafted a nice diagram that summarizes on one page the product owner’s responsibility together with the role’s key activities and artefacts.
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Methodology for Developing Use Cases for Large Systems
The purpose of this article is to offer a methodology for creating and building a Use Cases Model that caters for the needs and challenges of large and complex projects. The paper will explore some of the major challenges that are typical of large projects and will demonstrate practical steps for mitigating these challenges.
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UML versus Domain-Specific Languages
UML versus Domain-Specific Languages considers the two most popular starting points for code generation: * UML for program modeling, part of the OMG’s Model Driven Architecture (MDA) approach, and * Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs), little languages that are created specifically to model some problem domain.
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