‘Twas the night before launch and all through that dayNot a creature had stirred not even QA The requirements had been collected from the users with careIn the hopes that on launch day no bugs would be there The project team was all nestled, snug in their bedsWhile visions of smiling users danced through their [...]

With the holidays upon us, I wanted to spread some holiday cheer. I hope I can make you smile, with my medley of requirement “blongs”, to the tune of some of our favorite holiday songs! Frosty the PM Frosty the PM led a jolly happy team With a strong dev lead and a key tester [...]

How often should I be reviewing my requirements with members of my project team? By requirements I mean everything from high-level business needs (e.g. stakeholder requests, business requirements, vision and problem statements) to the most granular requirements (aka shall statements, functional and supplementary requirements and the like). My answer (with only the slightest bit of [...]

It’s that time of year we all look so forward to, when we get to wish our colleagues around the requirements world a bit of SeiCheer with our holiday medley of songs. And worry not, if the 2009 collection isn’t enough for you, you can go back in history and read our 2008 songs, 2007 [...]

We frequently find that software development teams defining requirements with use cases face a challenge in finding the right level to target as a starting point for their use cases. There is no widely agreed upon standard and team members often have differing opinions based on their background and experience. The available tools and templates [...]

It turns out that apparently a lot of companies have problems with requirements and we are getting hammered with requests for work. Not only do we have a blog backlog but we have a tremendous backlog with our clients. We are so committed to you the readers, we are having a blog party (at 7 [...]