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Requirements are dead. Long live requirements.
This blog post is about how to balance working with user stories in environments that are looking for something more traditional as far as requirements specifications are concerned.
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User Stories are Temporary
It’s obvious, but warrants mention: What we do in the future is likely to be different from what we’re doing today. The implications for user stories should be obvious: User stories are temporary. Saving them for posterity doesn’t serve the primary purpose of user stories, and doing anything that makes them less temporary can turn […]
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Unstated Requirements
In every requirement document, there is at least one if not many unstated requirements. This blog post discusses that “good” or “better” solutions solve not just the stated requirements but also the “unstated requirements.”
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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 success. Therefore, we force the burden of success onto the shoulders of the very person who has come to us, the software developer, for help. If that isn’t evil incarnate? This post is about the […]
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Writing User Stories for Web Applications
This post introduces user stories as the substitute of formal requirements documents in an agile environment.
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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 use them in real-life projects,
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