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Authoring Software Requirements with a Common Vernacular
Depending on your environment and the complexity of the anticipated solution, writing requirements can be a really tedious piece of work. You need to try and create a common vernacular for requirements. This is crucial to ensuring you have objective and agreeable requirements .
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Uses Cases are still Useful
Use cases are, indeed, heavier and more difficult than either user stories or backlog items, but they bring value for that extra weight. As not-Einstein said: “Make things as simple as possible, but no simpler.” (The attribution to Einstein has been debunked, it seems.) Source: “Why I still use use cases“, Alistair Cockburn, alistair.cockburn.us
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Sharing the Requirements Burden
As software developers it is our ability to listen to our customers throughout the process not just during some artificially time boxed requirements gathering phase and tell them the truth about their wants, needs, hopes, and desires, with all the complexities, and painful realities that transform our customers from being part of the problem to […]
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Why I still Use Use Cases
In this blog post, Alistair Cockburn explains how uses cases can solve some of the issues caused by using user stories for requirements.
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