One of the latest gadgets in the StoryCase office is a Intuous drawing tablet from Wacom. I remember getting a Wacom tablet many years ago when it needed an RS232 cable and separate power supply. It never really got used mainly due to the fiddly interface (was it 8 bit, […]
Agile Thoughts
Does your development team treat defects differently? A few projects ago the sprint teams I worked with decided the best way of burning down the bug list was to allocate at least a day a week (or every two weeks) to defects. There were several sprints running in parallel with […]
I like to think I’m agile. Most of the time I’m working as an analyst on projects, split between business and system analysis tasks. I talk with the business experts and help them define their requirements from requests to change or add new behaviour to adapt to business needs. In […]
Over the years I’ve practiced various flavours of IT development in projects with emphasis on use case driven approaches to guide requirements capture. Not all companies work this way and for many creation of a lengthy functional requirements document is the norm. Without an FRD / PRD / ReqDoc or […]
Few people really like documentation. Given the option most would rather try to figure out what to do without reading the manual. Even quick reference guide is hurriedly tossed aside to tryout the latest gadget. It’s probably masculine pride and could account for the agile manifesto’s preference for face-to-face communication […]