From the Editor of Methods & Tools: 7 Articles On Risk Management in Software...
While starting a new software development project creates some enthusiasm, the engineer part of the software developer and project manager will also see this event as a set of possible risks. These...
View ArticleSoftware Requirements Blog - Seilevel.com: INVEST “Slider”
In the Scrum view of the world, the Product Owner (PO) has accountability for the Product Backlog. This includes the responsibility for the Product Backlog items to be clearly expressed, and be in the...
View ArticleSoftware Requirements Blog - Seilevel.com: Adjusting To New Information
What does it mean for an organization to be agile? I don’t mean just in terms of agile software development, I mean for any team or company or group of people working toward any common goal. I tend to...
View ArticleFrom the Editor of Methods & Tools: Software Development Linkopedia November...
Here is our monthly selection of interesting knowledge material on programming, software testing and project management. This month you will find some interesting information and opinions about Agile...
View ArticleSoftware Requirements Blog - Seilevel.com: Built to Kill
During a conversation with a lead engineer working on the Google self-driving car project, it was mentioned that the car would be programmed to consistently break the speed limit. On average, the car...
View ArticleFrom the Editor of Methods & Tools: Quote of the Month November 2014
Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen. Source: Edward V. Berard (1993) Essays on object-oriented software engineering. Volume 1, Prentice Hall
View ArticleFrom the Editor of Methods & Tools: Software Development Conferences Forecast...
Here is a list of software development related conferences and events on Agile ( Scrum, Lean, Kanban) software testing and software quality, programming (Java, .NET, JavaScript, Ruby, Python, PHP) and...
View ArticleSoftware Requirements Blog - Seilevel.com: Getting Started on an Agile Project
I’m working with a new customer of ours, helping them with the requirements for an application that they will be building in-house. This customer has decided to give Scrum a try, so I’m also helping...
View ArticleSoftware Requirements Blog - Seilevel.com: Knowledge Transfer and Validation
I’ve just wrapped up a 2 ½ year consulting engagement. Typically, when I leave a client, I have been on a project and my focus is on completing as many action items as possible and making sure I have...
View ArticleSoftware Requirements Blog - Seilevel.com: Business Analyst vs Project Manager
I seem to run into this question a lot recently “What’s the ideal relationship between a Business Analyst and Project Manager role?” so I thought I’d address it here. First off, some people do fill...
View ArticleSoftware Requirements Blog - Seilevel.com: Defining Proper Success Metrics on...
The Business Objective Model (BOM) is one of the foundational models we use as part of the Seilevel requirements methodology. The BOM defines the rationale for doing a project. Every BOM has the...
View ArticleSoftware Requirements Blog - Seilevel.com: Project Communication Tips and Tricks
Ever had one of those projects where it seemed you spent most of your time either trying to track down the right person to talk to or trying to get team members to talk to each other? How do you deal...
View ArticleFrom the Editor of Methods & Tools: Quote of the Month December 2014
Stories shouldn’t be small because they need to fit into an iteration, but because the world shouldn’t end just because a story turns out to be wrong. Stories are based on assumptions about business...
View ArticleFrom the Editor of Methods & Tools: Software Development Linkopedia December...
Here is our monthly selection of interesting knowledge material on programming, software testing and project management. This month you will find some interesting information and opinions about slow...
View ArticleSoftware Requirements Blog - Seilevel.com: Revealing Invisible Requirements
This blog post was written with Karl Wiegers based on our Software Requirements, 3rd Edition book. No matter how thorough a job you do on requirements elicitation, there is no way to be certain that...
View ArticleSoftware Requirements Blog - Seilevel.com: On Communicating with Resistant...
Determining how best to communicate requirements to stakeholders on your project can be difficult if you have a challenging audience who has resistance, for whatever reason, towards the project you’re...
View ArticleSoftware Requirements Blog - Seilevel.com: Use Cases 101: Let’s Take an Uber
I was recently asked to prepare a handout giving the basics of use cases for an upcoming training session. It struck me as odd that I needed to start from square one for a model that seemed standard....
View ArticleSoftware Requirements Blog - Seilevel.com: It’s beginning to smell like the...
It’s about that time of year now when people are thinking of what to get others as gifts during the holiday season. Each year my family does a Yankee Swap (which may also be known as a White Elephant),...
View ArticleFrom the Editor of Methods & Tools: Agile Analysis, Self-Selecting Teams, TDD...
Methods & Tools – the free e-magazine for software developers, testers and project managers – has just published its Winter 2014 issue that discusses Agile Analysis, Self-Selecting...
View ArticleSoftware Requirements Blog - Seilevel.com: Isn’t Santa really just a Product...
I used to do some fun holiday jingles requirements-style. I fell out of habit with it a few years ago, but luckily they are timeless and can just be reused! That said, I was trying to get in the...
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