In the vein of how much to do "up front" I have a post: http://blogs.compuware.com/cs/blogs/jkern/archive/2006/09/01/matter_of_degree.aspx Your feedback is...
Kasim, Does this group welcome people who do not believe that requirements should be "engineered" in an independent phase by a separate group of specialists, ...
... You are assuming that the requirements in question are for a software-only system. What about systems that mix hardware, software, people, etc? How can...
Hubert Matthews
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Sep 5, 2006 10:29 pm
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Hard to address in one page... but see what you think: http://blogs.compuware.com/cs/admin/blogs/posteditor.aspx?App=jkern&PostID=1217 ...
I've read it and other works on the topic. For products that are more than software and business processes, there may indeed be a significant need for agreeing...
Hi All, I can suggest that you can go on this discussion on our group. Thanks. Kasim Sen ... there may ... up front, ... physical ... change ... particularly ...
(responding to Hubert) ... Point taken, it doesn't need to be an entirely, or any, software solution. That doesn't rule out single team or agile approaches. ...
(responding to Steve) ... I take the rather more optimistic view that we just haven't learned much about how to refactor these. Perhaps you are thinking about...
Just wanted to do a quick straw poll. How many of you: 1. Work in an organization with an enterprise data model in place (or where your org is currently...
Kasim, Thanks for the invitation, but I would have to agree with Steven. Many of us have invested a lot of time and effort in the interest of integrating the...
... where ... We have several enterprise-level data models - one for each database and one for each application that accesses those DBs. Terrabyte-level ...
One thought to consider is that there seems to be considerable evidence that a separate RE phase isn't very effective for most development efforts. A few...
... This then leads me back to a discussion I've had on this and similar groups for some time about enterprise systems. The cost and disruption of rolling out...
Hubert Matthews
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Sep 6, 2006 10:43 pm
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... From: "Hubert Matthews" <hubert@...> To: <agilemodeling@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 6:04 PM Subject: Re: [AM] Invitation:...
Hi Scott, Answers as follows... 1. Yes 2. No. The EDM is way to large to comprehend; over-normalization is the main culprit. i.e. address is modeled like a...
1) No got. Wish we had a high level one to harmonize definitions of global data items. 2) Not applicable since they don't exist. 3) We have two main data...
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... At last, someone who actually understands that deployment is part of software projects! Yes, fast change up to deployment is desirable and then a more...
Hubert Matthews
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Sep 8, 2006 5:37 pm
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(responding to Hubert) ... That sounds like a really good case for expending extra effort on Usability, so the product is as easy to learn as possible. ... ...
... If you can show the approaches are insecure, ask the customer how much bad press they can withstand if the data is breached. Andy...
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Sep 8, 2006 8:27 pm
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if you do send in a proposal, you need to simply plant a "Ghost Story" to point out the "insecure implementation." You can be clever... either say something...
... Right on! I have no-bid projects when it just smelled bad. In one particular case (circa 1997?), the customer was a friend that we had worked with in ...
Brad -- You may like to look at Agile Applications as Open-Vocabulary English BusinessRules over SQL in the December 2005 Cutter IT Journal, edited by Scott...
Is this not two topics <g>: * just enough requirements * requirements traceability Traceability is an interesting topic. One that I have skirted around for ...
(responding to Brad) ... Hmm... Are you intending to start from the common agile practice of trying to represent the bulk of the requirements as tests? I...