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Requirement Specification vs User Stories

Mon, 15 Aug 2022 10:00:32 +0000

What are software requirements and how do they relate to user stories? Is it requirement vs user story, or user story as requirement? An important part of agile software development is its user or customer focus. Our aim as software developers is to deliver outcomes that our users want or need. To do that it is vital to focus our work on the outcomes that matter to our users. Actually, this is true of any software development, agile or not. Requirements are often used to define the steps to deliver a solution, this is a big mistake. Deciding what our system needs to do is a difficult problem. Designing software well is a difficult problem too. We should avoid trying to solve these two difficult problems together in a single step, by conflating requirements with design.

In this episode, Dave Farley, author of “Continuous Delivery” and “Modern Software Engineering” explores what makes good requirements and how user stories help to improve the quality of requirements whatever the nature of our software development.

Exact Instructions Challenge - THIS is why my kids want to kill me. | Josh Darnit

Mon, 31 Jan 2022 16:55:25 +0000

We asked the kids to write instructions for a simple task but left out that we were going to be following their instructions EXACTLY as written. Great lesson for communication and a fun practice in patience!

Pentagon Wars - Bradley Fighting Vehicle Evolution

Sat, 30 Oct 2021 13:42:25 +0000

From the movie "Pentagon Wars". Bradley Fighting Vehicle design and development. One of the best illustrations on bad requirements and project management there is.