Fixing the Requirements Mess
Fixing the Requirements Mess - Editorial - CIO
Mishandled requirements can torpedo a project at any time, from inception to delivery. Start down the wrong road and you arrive at the wrong destination. And even if you're heading in the right direction, making fumbling changes midstream can be almost as deadly. Not integrating requirements with your test process can have you racing back late in the game to correct problems that might have been solved early on (and more cheaply).
None of this is easy. Business users often do not know exactly what they want, can not prioritize what they do want, request things IT simply can not deliver (because of complexity or cost), or can not describe their desires in terms that translate accurately into code. On the IT side, analysts, architects and coders regularly try too hard to please and do not set realistic expectations for projects; they do not use every means possible to guarantee that what they're building is what the user really needs, and sometimes they even fail to make sure that they're talking to all the right stakeholders.
Writing requirements is hard. It will always be hard. But with a handful of smart decisions you can create a requirements process that will produce positive results-and maybe keep your next project from becoming another statistic.
Great article from CIO.COM
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Project Management & Bussiness28 Dec 2005 09:32 pm
How to Choose the Best Deal
How to Choose the Best Deal: Negotiation: HBS Working Knowledge
Weighing different options can seem as difficult as comparing apples and oranges. The first step is to find the equalizer, then proceed from there, writes HBS professor Michael Wheeler in this article from Negotiation.
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Weblogs & Bussiness01 Dec 2005 05:46 pm
Why you should start a company internet today.
Allthatscool.com: Why you should start a company internet today.
There are so many reasons to start a company today, but the biggest one is because it's cheap. You can now rule out having to pay Microsoft for anything because of open source software, like Linux and MYSQL, and all of the free - or almost free - productivity and communication tools like Basecamp and Skype. And, let's not forget how inexpensive hardware and Bandwidth is. In 1999, we had to spend $ 500k to build a website that, today, would only cost $ $ 20k-30k. Operational costs have not changed that much, but the point is it takes a lot less money than it did only 5 years ago
Fixing the Requirements Mess - Editorial - CIO
Mishandled requirements can torpedo a project at any time, from inception to delivery. Start down the wrong road and you arrive at the wrong destination. And even if you're heading in the right direction, making fumbling changes midstream can be almost as deadly. Not integrating requirements with your test process can have you racing back late in the game to correct problems that might have been solved early on (and more cheaply).
None of this is easy. Business users often do not know exactly what they want, can not prioritize what they do want, request things IT simply can not deliver (because of complexity or cost), or can not describe their desires in terms that translate accurately into code. On the IT side, analysts, architects and coders regularly try too hard to please and do not set realistic expectations for projects; they do not use every means possible to guarantee that what they're building is what the user really needs, and sometimes they even fail to make sure that they're talking to all the right stakeholders.
Writing requirements is hard. It will always be hard. But with a handful of smart decisions you can create a requirements process that will produce positive results-and maybe keep your next project from becoming another statistic.
Great article from CIO.COM
No Comments Yet
Project Management & Bussiness28 Dec 2005 09:32 pm
How to Choose the Best Deal
How to Choose the Best Deal: Negotiation: HBS Working Knowledge
Weighing different options can seem as difficult as comparing apples and oranges. The first step is to find the equalizer, then proceed from there, writes HBS professor Michael Wheeler in this article from Negotiation.
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Weblogs & Bussiness01 Dec 2005 05:46 pm
Why you should start a company internet today.
Allthatscool.com: Why you should start a company internet today.
There are so many reasons to start a company today, but the biggest one is because it's cheap. You can now rule out having to pay Microsoft for anything because of open source software, like Linux and MYSQL, and all of the free - or almost free - productivity and communication tools like Basecamp and Skype. And, let's not forget how inexpensive hardware and Bandwidth is. In 1999, we had to spend $ 500k to build a website that, today, would only cost $ $ 20k-30k. Operational costs have not changed that much, but the point is it takes a lot less money than it did only 5 years ago
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