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Throughout this past year I've presented various articles highlighting the high-performance computing requirements on Wall Street, where latency and temporal constraints are closely tied profit and compliance. As many of you know, The Techdoer Times is...

In my previous post, I suggested that Agile's success is rooted in the creative responses that result from embracing continuous feedback and satisfying the right customer needs. In this third and final part to the Standing Up For Agile series, I’ll...

In my previous post, I pondered whether the overwhelming marketing hype surrounding the Agile movement has tainted its early success and diluted its purpose.  I don't believe this is the case.  Agile methodologies are very much at the forefront of...

The Techdoer Times is going global, Buenos Aires, Argentina to be exact.  I'll be giving a presentation at the first ever Latin American conference on Agile Software Development Methodologies in late October. Introduction It takes a lot of effort to be...

In part 1 I covered how needs serve as the core to any good requirement.  The restaurant example  highlighted the key differences between needs, features and requirements.  In part 2 I showed how features, or the range of options and constraints across...

In part 1 to the series on Clarifying Requirements we talked about stakeholder needs, both implicit and explicit and how these needs should be the core to any good requirement.   We also talked about the importance of correctly defining the user group...

Many software teams struggle with the process of identifying and defining requirements.  Independent of the development process they practice (e.g. Agile, RUP, Waterfall, SCRUM or MSF), correctly capturing, specifying  and maintaining stakeholder...