July 8, 2010
UML or DSL: Which Bear Is Best?
This article describes the scenarios in which UML or DSLs should be used, and how each can be effectively integrated…
Category: Knowledge
Software Requirements Management Articles, Blog Posts, Books and Quotes
July 7, 2010
Requirements aren’t evil, we are.
As he is responsible to create the requirements, we set the customer as the sole owner of the definition of…
May 26, 2010
Writing User Stories for Web Applications
This post introduces user stories as the substitute of formal requirements documents in an agile environment.
May 3, 2010
User Stories are a Reminder to Collaborate
User stories are not a highly documented series of requirements but rather a reminder to collaborate about the topic of…
April 25, 2010
New to User Stories?
Having coached traditional requirements, use cases, user stories, and agile development, I’ve fielded a lot of questions around the differences…
March 15, 2010
Agile, Multidisciplinary Teamwork
The article “<a href=”http://www.methodsandtools.com/archive/archive.php?id=17″>Agile, Multidisciplinary Teamwork</a>” by Gautam Ghosh presents techniques and tools used to create requirements with a team…
February 25, 2010
Understanding Non-Functional Requirements
This blog post is about understanding what non-functional requirements are, how they work, how to write them, and how to…
January 28, 2010
Requirements for Outsourcing
Outsourcing differs from other development because there is bound to be a contractual relationship, probably a geographic distance, a different…
January 22, 2010
Real Reuse for Requirements
Requirements reuse provides organizations with the unique ability to share a requirement across projects without absorbing unnecessary duplication of artifacts…
January 10, 2010
Business Analysis in Extreme Programming
This article “Business Analysis in Extreme Programming” describes the myths associated with having business analyst between the customers and the…