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Requirements Quote

from Ron Jeffries on the Agile Testing board

I think "requirements" always means approximately "what we think, right now, that we need".

 

One of my pet peeves working in development is dealing with the waterfall-ish idea that requirements and analysis is done just because you clicked print on a Word document. 



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Jens said:

*sigh*...If only I could teach my manager...

# February 7, 2007 12:38 PM

James Taylor said:

Part of the problem is that <a href="http://www.edmblog.com/weblog/2006/09/dig_yourself_ou.html">requirements are a tarpit</a> for programmers and separating out <a href="http://www.edmblog.com/weblog/2006/05/not_another_att.html">rules and requirements</a> will make life much easier for programmers.

# February 7, 2007 2:25 PM

Jay Kimble said:

While I would not call myself an agilist, I totally agree with this statement (it's one of the things about agile methods that intrigue me).  In my 14 years of professional development, I've worked on a large number of projects/features where YAGNI didn't rule.  As an independent, I've been working hard on my sales pitch for a flat rate (and this is the cornerstone of it).

# February 9, 2007 7:39 AM

t-minus : Limited Ink said:

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# October 15, 2007 6:26 PM

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About Jeremy D. Miller

Jeremy began his IT career writing "Shadow IT" applications to automate his engineering documentation, then wandered into software development because it looked like more fun. Jeremy previously worked as a systems architect building mission critical supply chain software for a Fortune 100 company and learned agile development practices as a .Net consultant at ThoughtWorks, one of the pioneers of agile development. Jeremy is the author of the open source StructureMap (http://structuremap.sourceforge.net) tool for Dependency Injection with .Net and the forthcoming StoryTeller (http://storyteller.tigris.org) tool for supercharged FIT testing in .Net. Jeremy's thoughts on just about everything software related can be found on his weblog "The Shade Tree Developer" at http://codebetter.com/blogs/jeremy.miller, part of the popular CodeBetter site. Jeremy is a Microsoft MVP for C#. Check out Devlicio.us!

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