Archive for April, 2009

Don’t Forget Your Checklists

I have got to be one of the biggest proponents of checklists, I literally live by checklists. I have a personal belief that people just cannot remember everything they need to do in a specific situation if it’s more than a few actions – whether it is going to the grocery store, kicking off a [...]

Software Requirements Plagiarism

I was talking a program manager recently who described a funny requirements situation from her past that topped most of the stories I have heard. She had assigned the team’s business analyst do some requirements for a particular feature of a system they were implementing. He was dragging his feet for weeks on this, delivering [...]