Gathering requirements is simple: just ask the users what they want. However, experience shows this fails dismally. In this article, we look at why gathering requirements is so hard, and what can be ...

Hugh Cumming had his work cut out for him. The gap between what his not-yet-implemented call center management application at a large European company could do and the requirements list created by 40 ...

Every developer is taught that development has clear stages, from identifying requirements to building the solution and testing. Traditionally, the requirement-setting stage is laborious and lengthy, ...

Since the creation of the Agile Manifesto, many development teams have embraced the guidelines of agile. By focusing on the customer and eliminating wasted development effort, developers have seen ...

Knowing the requirements of a process is one thing. Communicating those requirements in a way that a control engineer clearly understands them and can use them to program PLCs, HMIs and other ...

The landscape of software development changes frequently. But throughout my years managing a software development company, one core strategy has remained – minimize development time while maximizing ...