Risk,
Project Failure,
Risk Management,
Requirements Engineering,
Risk Assessment,
KOPANAS 1091 days ago
A study examining 720 software projects to determine the drivers of project failure was conducted and it was found that all project failures can be linked to one cause: the delivered solution does not fit the problem.
The six main software project risks, in order of importance are: use of an inapproriate methodology, lack of customer involvement, lack of formal project management, dissimilarity to previous projects, project complexity and requirements volatility.
UML,
Requirements Engineering,
Design,
reference,
SKRUD 1090 days ago
An invaluable tool for anyone working on any kind of UML Diagram, Allen Holub provides brief descriptions of just about everything in UML 2.0 complete with examples. Useful for not only creating, but interpreting UML diagrams as well.
Requirements Engineering,
Agile,
User Stories,
Use Cases,
eXtreme Programming,
KOPANAS 1055 days ago
An introduction to user stories that was first introduced in eXtreme Programming and the difference between user stories and use cases.
Requirements Engineering,
Prototyping,
CASE Tool,
Visio,
Web,
KOPANAS 1039 days ago
GUUUI has updated it’s prototyping tool for visio and it’s how to article that goes with it. If you develop web based applications you should give this tool a shot.
Functional Specifications,
Requirements Engineering,
KOPANAS 1017 days ago
I love 37signals process for developing web-based applications. They don’t believe in functional specifications, they believe in writing a one-page story about the application and designing the interface that will act as the functional spec.