Articles tagged “requirements”

• Do requirements matter? For the last decade, I've met in my life hun­dreds of French pro­gram­mers, de­vel­op­ers, leads and CTOs. None of them knew the dif­fer­ence be­tween func­tion­al and non-func­tion­al re­quire­ments. This wouldn't be so dis­turb­ing if it were lim­it­ed to France:…
  requirements 3 communication 27
• Questioning the goal of the project Re­cent­ly, a friend of mine ap­proached me with a rewrite of a soft­ware prod­uct. A small com­pa­ny where she works has a small piece of desk­top soft­ware writ­ten ten years ago in WinDe­v¹ by an in-house de­vel­op­er left five years ago. The pur­pose of this…
  requirements 3 agile 10 communication 27 short 50
• Take risks, fail fast In many soft­ware de­vel­op­ment teams, the source code is sa­cred. Its sa­cred­ness is caused by two fac­tors: The code is the ul­ti­mate ex­pres­sion of the in­tel­lec­tu­al work of the de­vel­op­ers. If you have any­thing against the code, it means that you're…
  productivity 36 quality 36 refactoring 12 rant 34 requirements 3