Relating Requirements to Implementation via Topic Analysis
Large organizations like Microsoft tend to rely on formal requirements documentation in order to specify and design the software products that they develop. These documents are meant to be tightly coupled with the actual implementation of the features they describe.
Read More
Capabilities Based Planning for Requirements
In this blog post, Glen Alleman explains the concept of capabilities based planning to elicit requirements. You use capabilities is to answer the question “Why is this requirement needed?” Capabilities statements are then used to define the units of measure for program progress which is the most meaningful to the customer. Starting with the Capabilities […]
Read More
Requirements Management Tools Market Survey
A recent Methods & Tools survey was dedicated to the software tools used to manage software requirements. The following question was asked: “How does your project manage the definition of requirements (text, user stories, models,…)?” Here are the answers:
Read More
Organize Requirements with a Requirements Mapping Matrix
This blog post by Kim Spilker explains how to using a Requirements Mapping Matrix (RMM) to organize and identify requirements. The RMM is a visual model that can help organize requirements to find missing links, missing information, and unnecessary information you can cut. RMMs are used to map elements of models to one another, for […]
Read More
Is the Product Owners Owning His Product?
This blog post tries to answer the following questions: Does a Product Owner indeed own his product? What are the duties of a Product Owner? Who is the Product Owner? What qualities should a Product Owner possess? Starting from the description in the Scrum Guide, the blog provides interesting material to understand the high level […]
Read More
Stop Gathering Requirements
The concept of “gathering requirements” comes from the premise that there are requirements out there someplace that the business analyst has to find. But do users or stakeholders really have requirements? In this article, Steve Blais says that users don’t have requirements, so business analysts have to stop gathering requirements. His opinion is that user […]
Read More