Archive for the ‘Requirements Management’ Category

What’s Wrong with Requirements

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008

I have, after several months of leading developers, come to a realization:  requirements are not enough. How many of you have heard a developer say this at one point or another: "Why on earth would they want it to do that?" Modern requirements gathering has become a very sterile task- identify what must be ...

Eight Tips for Scope Creep

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

There's an interesting article over on Six Revisions on Feature Creep.  It's worth a read if you're a project manager, because almost everything there translates directly to scope creep for projects.  It talks about some basic things: 1.  Scope creep will happen.  It's natural and not the end of the world.  You must manage ...

Bringing Common Sense to Requirements

Wednesday, November 21st, 2007

Common sense and requirements, for better or worse, do not always go together.  People get literal-minded, especially on larger projects and in huge organizations.  I have seen a project get held up for weeks before because the business requirements said "Response times must be under 5 seconds", and in testing ...

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