The 2007 Women’s Business Conference, presented by Austin Women in Technology, is happening on February 7th – only a week away! You’re invited to join professional women in Austin for a day of seminars and presentations that will help you shape your future and make the changes you’ve always wanted to make, professionally and personally. [...]

One source of requirements for a software system is business rules. Business rules are usually defined as rules and constraints that affect how a company achieves its goals. These rules are typically independent of the software system being designed or deployed. But what about the collection of rules and constraints that are NOT independent of [...]

Ok, so I am finally getting around to post about day 2 of the requirements conference. Business has been great lately and so we have all had our noses to the grindstone but I finally found a spare moment to get these out. RE06 was definitely an eye opening experience to me as I mentioned [...]

The nature of our work contributes to long hours and a hectic pace on projects. Our culture promotes work/life balance and “normal” work week hours. How does a company resolve these seemingly contradictory objectives? We manage what I like to call “personal scope”. Personal scope comes in two formats: I have too many individual tasks [...]

This thread is going to be about Goal Oriented techniques. There’s been some good academic work in this area — you could look up Goal-Oriented Requirements Engineering (GORE) — and some successes in practice. I’ve been following this area for about 10 years, and have used it for a few engagements. I think the concepts [...]

Instead of New Year’s resolutions, I have chosen to set an annual theme for each year. Though the topic is a bit outside the requirements space, I’m going to share the concept here, as it is very much like setting a vision for an organization. The idea behind setting New Year’s resolutions is to focus [...]