May
29
The Motivation Behind Agile Methods
May 29, 2006 | Leave a Comment
Design consists of creating things for clients who may not know what they want, until they see what you’ve done, then they know exactly what they want, but it’s not what you did.
Brian Sooy, via Guy Kawasaki.
May
25
Link: Slouching Toward Waterfall
May 25, 2006 | Comments Off
Dave Nicolette on why organizations revert to waterfall development methods over time. The Staggered Iterative Waterfall is probably more common these days than any other method.
May
25
Link: self-explaining systems
May 25, 2006 | Comments Off
Luke Hohmann on why systems should be able to explain their behaviour to users.
May
24
Version 1.6?
May 24, 2006 | Leave a Comment
Yep.
It’s been a while since version 1.4. A lot of that time has been spent gathering feedback from practitioners and fleshing out the contents of the various chapters. Almost every chapter has a lot more material now (most have almost complete first drafts).
Obviously this is not the place to make an announcement of the release [...]
May
23
Requirements Analysis and Documentation, Take 1.6
May 23, 2006 | 2 Comments
In the next version of the BA BoK, we’re planning some changes to the Requirements Analysis and Documentation KA.
One task will probably move to Requirements Planning and Management (Structuring Requirements for Traceability). The rationale for that is that tracing requirements is almost purely a requirements management technique, not an analysis technique. Many projects don’t even [...]
May
19
BA BoK Update
May 19, 2006 | Leave a Comment
I expect an official announcement soon, but unofficially, I’m happy to say that there will be a new version of the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge in the very near future. There will be another update towards the end of the year.
Like 1.4, this will be a “snapshot” release that shows IIBA members where we [...]
May
18
12 Sins of Gurus, Period
May 18, 2006 | Leave a Comment
Via David Maister, I came across this post by Uri Baruchin which lists the 12 Sins of Marketing Gurus. I suspect anyone familiar with the software development methodology wars will recognize several of those sins. Not all; for example, there are very few significant ideas in IT that can be summed up in 12 pages. [...]
May
17
On Business Trends and Management Fads
May 17, 2006 | Leave a Comment
What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done; and there is nothing new under the sun.
Is there a thing of which it is said, “See, this is new“? It has been already, in the ages before us.
There is no remembrance of former things, nor will there [...]
May
17
Link–Gartner on the Future of IT
May 17, 2006 | Comments Off
Gartner has a new report on the future of IT departments, which is not nearly as pessimistic as Nick Carr makes it out to be.
May
10
Requirements-based Testing References
May 10, 2006 | Leave a Comment
Requirements-based Testing Methodologies
I found out that other people had developed a testing methodology using the same name as my talk after I submitted my proposal to BAWorld. While their RBT and mine are a little different in detail, many of the principles are the same.
Bender RBT
Introduction to Requirements-based Testing
Position Papers
Rick Craig
The Value of Requirements-based [...]
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