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Agile Development still requires some level of requirement documentation. However, that documentation has to be scalable and flexible – just like Agile Development itself. This book chapter looks at ...

Suzanne and James Robertson, authors of numerous publications in the requirements field, launched a video course called "Requirements: The Masterclass LiveLessons-Traditional, Agile, Outsourcing".

Does your company make medical devices? How about cars? Or appliances? Or mobile applications? Do you have an external website? If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, then your company is a ...

Not only does backlog management impact product architecture, but full adoption of Experience Leveling can also enable faster time-to-production, higher quality, and better user experience. Mature ...

Value stream management involves people in the organization to examine workflows and other processes to ensure they are deriving the maximum value from their efforts while eliminating waste — of ...

Going Agile shifts the focus of gathering application requirements from detailed specifications to user stories, and that's the biggest obstacle to success, according to a recent survey of companies ...

The methods technology companies use to develop new software for their customers have changed in recent years, making applying the rules for capitalization of software development cost more ...

The command-and-control hierarchical organization of large companies is rapidly giving way to a more biological metaphor, one in which a corporate nervous system senses important signals from the ...

It’s ironic that the idea of Agile—a central concept of competitiveness in the 21 st Century economy—which began in manufacturing in the early 1990s, took hold in software, not manufacturing. While ...