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Software Requirements Management Articles, Blog Posts, Books and Quotes
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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The Importance of Backlog Prioritization
In this blog post, Maurits Rijk explains the importance of a prioritized backlog to deliver business value as quickly as possible in a Scrum project.
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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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Being a Better Product Owner
Sean McHugh shares in this blog post six practices to be a better product owner.
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