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The semantics of requirements

So how do you work out what you really need? There are as many answers to that question as there are practitioners of the subtle art of requirements gathering. I think it’s important to employ common sense and not adhere to a purely academic approach here. Ultimately you are dealing with software for people, and [...]

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When is a requirement not a requirement?

Commissioning software is *hard*. Lots of people have lots of potentially conflicting ideas and opinions; you might have a legacy system that does almost what your users want, but not quite; you might want to make use of a new technology, or introduce more automation into the process to drive greater efficiency. How do you [...]

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Don’t fear the U-turn

Listening to Radio 4 this morning (I love Farming Today!), I was listening to the news reporting that Jack Straw has executed a u-turn on the plan to build large prisons. To my amazement, people were mocking him for having changed his mind. Much as I generally dislike Jack Straw, my opinion of him improved [...]

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Downturn thinking

Whilst I don’t want to appear to dismiss the pain of those who have been unfortunate enough to lose jobs or income as a result of the economic downturn, it appears that it’s a really exciting time for those of us who enjoy making things better. Most companies have some form of IT infrastructure: you [...]

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