(responding to Birol) ... Ah! okay. All of these things are features. We don't have a "Requirements Phase" in any agile approach that I know. Typically we...
(responding to Scott P) ... In any of these areas, if the chances of being right were higher and the consequences of being wrong were lower, the practitioners...
(responding to Pete) ... Hmm... Is what you do right? Ask your customer, your bank manager, your family (not necessarily in that order). We're just here to...
Hello, Scott. On Wednesday, October 31, 2007, at 8:46:21 PM, you ... With you, I have only non-user knowledge of these. I'm going to suggest here that these...
Picking nits: Paul Oldfield wrote: (snip) ... That IS a "requirements phase". The "requirements phase" is where you define what you want/need the system to do....
Hello, Scott. On Wednesday, October 31, 2007, at 10:24:33 PM, you ... I'd make two related points: First, the code says what the design actually /is/. Other...
(responding to Mike) ... Always happy to supply them ;-) ... Sometimes, agreed. Yet at other times we want to question the assumptions underlying the words....
Hello, Scott. On Monday, October 29, 2007, at 11:10:59 AM, you ... I'd like to challenge this. First, I'd like to challenge whether you really imagine that ...
... So what you could do is: 1. Do a bit of requirements envisioning, http://www.agilemodeling.com/essays/initialRequirementsModeling.htm , to determine the...
... Agreed. I've got a fairly detailed article on this topic at http://www.agilemodeling.com/essays/phasesExamined.htm - Scott Scott W. Ambler Practice Leader...
Hi, Ron wrote: "Finally, these tools are focused in on some very small part of physical design, such as air flow around it, routing, positioning of objects,...
Hello, Mike. On Wednesday, October 31, 2007, at 10:19:51 AM, you ... Good stuff. I'd love to see some articles on this subject. Are there any out there...
I believe in the RUP a "phase" is simply a name given to a pattern of work activities. All the activities are potentially ongoing during a whole project, just...
John Hanna
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Replying to Scott and Paul: Consider a case where you have to bid on a very competitive project. The customer gives all competitors an RFP and invites you...
The RFP scenario is a lose-lose for anything innovative. It works well enough for very standard cookie-cutter projects like building a very common type of...
(responding to Birol) ... No matter how good one's team is at estimating, there will still be at least 10% uncertainty, probably more for a new customer. You...
I completely agree that time and development resource allocation can not be rigid. They are only a way of bringing some order to what would otherwise be a...
(responding to John) ... It's a bit more well defined than that. The RUP phases follow a natural succession of the major risks to be addressed on a project....
You can clearly choose whatever projects you feel most comfortable with. The customer may just want something that is nmeeded to be done, innovative or not....
Reponding to Paul: Sure you can do that. It depends on what the other bidders are offering... ... __________________________________________________ Do You...
... Much of what the customer thinks during initial requirements gathering and analysis will often also turn out to be not quite correct and far from complete...
I found it *very* easy to get into the swing of the conversations here. A couple well-placed email filters and turning "threading" on in my email client and I...
... I wish. Most of what I have is anecdotal. Companies in the regulated environment tend to be very sensitive about revealing information about their...
... I think you misinterpreted. I said [process] mentoring becomes more important when the company needs to get buy-in rather than relying on dictated...
... Umm. Let me try rephrasing that: A design is a model of a system. The code may or may not correctly implement the design that it is claimed to implement...
Hello, Scott. On Thursday, November 1, 2007, at 2:56:15 PM, you ... ok, gotcha. same page. ... Yes, every book says that. And if all you are doing is a bubble...
Hello, Scott. On Thursday, November 1, 2007, at 3:58:52 PM, you ... No. Really no. A model may or may not describe reality. But reality always describes...
Hi, Ron, Ron wrote, "But if you have a large program, then major changes are really major. Design changes of the kind you're espousing, laying in the basic...
The nicest way to look at the UP phases is to consider them seasons of a project (to my knowledge Gary Evans was the first to call them that). Some orgs will ...
Hi, OK - it amounts to the same thing. The code represents the design that the code implements. It may or may not represent the design of the system the...
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