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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New to User Stories?
Having coached traditional requirements, use cases, user stories, and agile development, I’ve fielded a lot of questions around the differences among the three major ways of specifying requirements, particularly by people migrating to user stories. This article compares requirements, use cases, and user stories against each other.
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Concordion
Concordion is an open source tool for writing automated acceptance tests in Java. There are also versions for .NET, Python, and Ruby.
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Agile, Multidisciplinary Teamwork
The article “<a href=”http://www.methodsandtools.com/archive/archive.php?id=17″>Agile, Multidisciplinary Teamwork</a>” by Gautam Ghosh presents techniques and tools used to create requirements with a team composed of the different participants of agile projects.
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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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