Tag Archives: requirements

Agile game: MoSCoW prioritisation

Posted on February 26, 2015 by aterny

I recently developed and presented a one-hour ‘master class’ on MoSCoW prioritisation. It’s not a hugely complicated topic, and one I have written about before. This time, though, I was able to talk people through the process of going from project … Continue reading →

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Killing Agility

Posted on July 23, 2013 by aterny

In their iconic book “Peopleware”, DiMarco and Lister said “I can’t tell you what to do to get a team to gel, but I can tell you 100 things that will prevent it” A similar thing applies to Agile. A … Continue reading →

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Conditional Priorities?

Posted on June 11, 2013 by aterny

We are working with a corporate partner, who is providing us detailed requirements for changes to their customer documents. They supply the text, we apply it to the document and get it tested. During the planning workshop for our last … Continue reading →

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Are User Stories always the best way to capture agile requirements?

Posted on March 21, 2013 by aterny

If you are in an agile team and don’t use user stories, you are probably in the minority. But if you do, are you finding that they are always the best way of capturing requirements? I have recently come to … Continue reading →

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The context behind user stories

Posted on October 21, 2012 by aterny

How do you go about generating the requirements on your agile project? Does your Business Analyst go around interviewing each of the business stakeholders? Do you hold one or more workshops where stories are written in a group? If you … Continue reading →

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Degrees of agility

Posted on April 29, 2012 by aterny

Google “agile software development” (and by the way, any company that gets their name turned into a universally-used verb has seriously ‘made it’) and you will find literally hundreds of thousands of articles and blogs telling you exactly how to … Continue reading →

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Products with strange requirements

Posted on September 3, 2011 by aterny

I sometimes look at a product and wonder: “What were the requirements for that? Who thought it was a good idea?” One such product is SkyGo. It allows Sky subscribers to access live satellite tv on their laptop, tablet or … Continue reading →

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