How to Avoid Ambiguity and Save Your Requirements
Here are four more sources of ambiguity, plus additional best practices to save your requirements — and your product.
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Five Ways Ambiguous Language Will Ruin Your Requirements
March 7, 2018 in Requirements & Requirements Management /by Jama SoftwareWhen a requirement can be interpreted in more than one way, problems ensue.
Three Simple Mistakes That Will Doom Your Requirements
February 13, 2018 in Requirements & Requirements Management /by Jama SoftwareAvoid these common problems that weaken initial requirements and throw a product off track.
Striking the Right Level of Detail in Requirements
February 6, 2018 in Requirements & Requirements Management /by Preston MitchellFinding that critical balance between speed and quality is essential for product teams, which is where requirements management comes into play.
The Reliance on Requirements Management Tools as the Engineering Messiah
January 3, 2018 in Requirements & Requirements Management /by Christer FrölingI’ve met a lot of folks who have an unhealthy belief in requirements management as the sum total of requirements work needed.
Could Improving Requirements Management Stop a Software Apocalypse?
October 5, 2017 in Requirements & Requirements Management /by Kevin SmithThe marriage of hardware and software is no longer a niche trend in product design. With the growing phenomenon, The Atlantic recently ran a piece, titled “The Coming Software Apocalypse,” about the serious challenges industries face when developing products that rely on both hardware and software, and the real-world consequences occurring as a result. According […]
Successful Requirements Management Can Eliminate up to 80 Percent of Project Defects
April 5, 2017 in Requirements & Requirements Management /by Melissa TathamIn the product development process, requirements are the foundation to success. They define what a company is trying to build. And they identify what a product needs to do and what it should look like. As the number and complexity of products increases, so do the requirements to support them. Today’s sophisticated products and software […]
Modern Requirements Management Solution
March 28, 2017 in Requirements & Requirements Management /by Jama SoftwareOn today’s fast moving road to innovation requirements management can feel like a burdensome, yet necessary evil. For those of you who manage requirements with spreadsheets, word docs and power point, this process can feel even more unwieldy. Possibly worse? Using a heavy-handed tool like DOORS that adds extra overhead and requires additional skillsets for […]
PTScientists are on a full time mission to the Moon
March 3, 2017 in Requirements & Requirements Management /by Madeline Wigen KernanIt’s not uncommon for engineers and scientists to have side projects. Many successful products began as an experiment during the innovator’s time out of the office. German-based Part-Time Scientists has taken that idea to a whole new level. Their goal, in partnership with Audi, is to get a lunar lander safely to the surface of […]
When Good is no Longer Good Enough
February 10, 2017 in Requirements & Requirements Management /by Melissa TathamIn business, times change because needs change. Changes driven by the rise in software-driven products, the business imperatives of on-time delivery, and extended supply-chain systems threaten to disrupt traditional manufacturing and engineering processes. Your teams are pressured to accelerate product development and manage growing complexity in distributed organization and supply chains, within products, and across […]