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From Unclear and Unrealistic Requirements to Achievable User Stories
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"What do you want the system to do?" can be a loaded question for agile teams. Ideally, the product owner gives you a product backlog with fully groomed user stories prioritized by business value, ready for team discussion and estimation. Instead, you may have the “big picture” product...
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Jamie Lynn Cooke
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Requirements Are Simply Requirements—or Maybe Not
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When talking about requirements, people use identical terms and think they have a common understanding. Yet, one says user stories are requirements; another claims user stories must be combined with requirements; and yet another has a different approach. These “experts” seem unaware of...
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Robin Goldsmith, Go Pro Management, Inc.
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Requirements Are Simply Requirements—or Maybe Not
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People talk about requirements, use identical terms, and think they have a common understanding. Yet, one says user stories are requirements; another claims user stories must be combined with requirements; and another has a still different approach. These “experts” seem unaware of the...
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Robin Goldsmith, Go Pro Management, Inc.
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Agile Dev, Better Software & DevOps Conference West 2015: EARS: The Easy Approach to Requirements Syntax
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One key to specifying effective functional requirements is minimizing misinterpretation and ambiguity. By employing a consistent syntax in your requirements, you can improve readability and help ensure that everyone on the team understands exactly what to develop. John Terzakis provides...
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John Terzakis, Intel
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Agile Development Conference & Better Software Conference East 2014: EARS: The Easy Approach to Requirements Syntax
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One key to specifying effective functional requirements is minimizing misinterpretation and ambiguity. By employing a consistent syntax in your requirements, you can improve readability and help ensure that everyone on the team understands exactly what to develop. John Terzakis provides...
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John Terzakis, Intel
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Non-Functional Requirements: Forgotten, Neglected, and Misunderstood
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Implementing non-functional requirements is essential to build the right product. Yet teams often struggle with when and how to discover, specify, and test these requirements. Many teams neglect non-functional requirements up front, considering them less important or unrelated to user...
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Paul Reed, EBG Consulting
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Avoiding Over Design and Under Design
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The question of how much design to do up-front on a project is an engaging conundrum. Too much design often results in excess complexity and wasted effort. Too little design results in a poor architecture or insufficient system structures which require expensive rework and hurt more in the...
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Al Shalloway, Net Objectives
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Requirements Are Requirements—or Maybe Not
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Many people talk about requirements. They use identical terms and think they have a common understanding. Yet, one says user stories are requirements; another claims user stories must be combined with requirements; and yet another has a different approach. These “experts” seem unaware of...
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Robin Goldsmith, Go Pro Management, Inc.
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Testing Lessons Learned from Monty Python
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And now for something completely different...
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Rob Sabourin, AmiBug.com
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Top Challenges in Testing Requirements
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Studies show that at least half of all software defects are rooted in poor, ambiguous, or incomplete requirements. For decades, testing has complained about the lack of solid concrete...
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Lloyd Roden, Lloyd Roden Consultancy
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