Life Lessons Flowchart image by nbrier Craig Brown, who runs the fabulous project management/business analysis blog Better Projects made...

There have been some really interesting articles in recent days and weeks that have been comparing use cases and user stories, and...

I haven’t been doing a lot of posting in recent days, but I have been doing quite a bit of reading. A while back, I was able to get hold...

When launching a new product (including projects to update existing ones) it is important that all stakeholders share a simple, focused...

http://view.break.com/542649 – Watch more free videos I recently stumbled upon this video, got a kick out of it and thoughts I’d share....

Do you like to look at examples of others’ requirement specs and templates to see what you can learn? I do from time to time and thought...

Wikipedia (with help from Ivar Jacobson) defines actors as: [S]omething or someone which exists outside the system under study, and that...

Here are some of my recent findings of interest that I wanted to share in case others of you may be in the same boat. Martin Fowler...

This modularity can be undermined, though, if we allow our use cases to get too far into specifics and implementation detail. The book...

I recently posted about the need for accuracy and precision in requirements. In that post, I mentioned that natural language requirements...

In Requirements, Accuracy Isn’t Enough Allow me to reflect and maybe even toot my own horn here for just a second. Since I’ve been a...

I found a great deal of help in Mike Cohn’s article, Advantages of User Stories for Requirements. In this article, Cohn explains user...

Now that I’ve sat through some of the training, and gotten a quick peek at some of the tools available, I wanted to appeal to my audience...

This from 37signals: Don’t write a functional specifications document. Why? Well, ther’s nothing functional about a functional...

One of the main challenges in drafting requirements is to state “what” the solution must entail, and not “how” the solution must be...