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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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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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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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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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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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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 with the other.
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