Software Requirements Talk

The Inhibited Analyst

2011-11-17T16:43:43Z

Requirements analysts need to be more inquisitive and know why people want things as well as what happens beforehand. This requires them to become less inhibited and keep asking questions until they and their stakeholders are satisfied with the answers.

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What Time Is It, Eccles?

2011-10-28T16:21:23Z

Requirements analysts need a new toolbox with both the right tools and the instructions to use them including agile development and user-centered design for techniques such as analysis of Web analytics, wire-framing, and user stories. We can also look to the creativity literature and take techniques such as constraint removal, storytelling, and other worlds.

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Requirements Analysis: The Next Generation

2011-09-14T21:28:46Z

Most requirements research and vision papers tend to focus on the near future, one research advance at a time. This podcast explores requirements practices 20 years from now, based on predicted changes to technologies, applications, and stakeholders.

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Requirements and Aesthetics

2011-05-04T17:12:59Z

Requirements people rarely talk about aesthetics. This column draws on the 10 principles of good design from Dieter Rams to examine the important roles of aesthetics in requirements practices. It proposes the use of meaning carriers to think about new types of requirements.

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GORE, SORE, or What?

2010-12-20T18:20:42Z

by Ian Alexander

Competing schools of thought in both research and industry advocate different approaches to requirements. Each favors one particular kind of artifact, such as scenarios, goals, priorities, and context models. But focusing on any one of these risks failing to discover critical project information that could readily be unearthed by other means. Perhaps a mix-and-match approach that combines requirement methods would be more effective.

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Storyboarding Requirements

2010-11-15T22:29:05Z

This installment of Software Requirements Talk describes a way to use storyboards to capture the interplay between human interaction and service design and so improve the quality of service design delivery.

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Oi! Analysts

2010-11-15T22:23:55Z

Certification for requirements analysts requires focusing on a small, possibly unrepresentative, set of tasks that might not reflect domain knowledge and could lead to good analysts not getting certified because they don't do well on the exam.

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Service Design, It's All in the Brand

2010-08-10T20:46:19Z

This installment argues that requirements analysts will soon need to deal with service design, and describes one service design method to demonstrate the challenges that analysts will face.

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Agile Requirements

2010-08-10T20:46:52Z

This column looks at agile techniques in requirements processes, summarizes their successes and failures so far, and proposes that we re-consider our use of electronic documentation in requirements projects.

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