Year: 2011
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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Being a Better Product Owner
Sean McHugh shares in this blog post six practices to be a better product owner.
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Using Organization Chart
In this blog post, Betsy Stockdale shares the benefits for the business analyst to use an organization chart to understand the perspectives and interests of project stakeholders and discover people that should be involved in the requirements discovery process.
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User story vs use case vs “what are we trying to accomplish”
In this blog post, Leon Kotovich explains that requirements are not about user stories or use cases, but that you should use all available techniques to solve your problem correctly once you have defined it.
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Capture use case documents with DITA
Explore how to combine requirement gathering with documentation that development managers, developers, testers, and technical writers can re-purpose throughout the development cycle. The flexible extension mechanism in Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) is becoming an industry standard for this kind of undertaking. In this article, you create a specialized schema for use case documentation.
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