I'm looking for a tool that will help with gathering and maintaining requirements (most probably use case specifications) I have used Rational Requisite Pro in the past and found it was OK but no longer have access to it Is there anything else I could use? ...
Probably an easy one: Are there any rules of thumb or pointers that could help recognise political requirements? Let’s say one of stakeholders (your boss, a head of another department or an actual user) asks for a feature or particular characteristic of software being developed by yourself or your team. Is there a litmus test to determ...
We are just going through defining our story cards for the next project. We have a good idea what the customer want through workshops We have a business requirement document that will be signed off by them. Our proces of defining storys is as follows We take a feature the customer wants and write a story We have a brief design disc...
What is the best tool for managing software requirements [for Windows] ? ...
What is a good programming methodology for custom applications that need to be coded very fast and very customized? I realize the lack of requirements is a problem no matter what. Also how do you convince management to change their practices? Next question is how to you get people to stop writing 5000 line single file programs? ...
Yeah, I know the title is a mouthful... What I mean is to say is how do you communicate with a subject matter expert who needs a theory coded and tested? For example, weather simulation is a collaboration between meteorologists, computer scientists, and software engineers. The computer scientists and software engineers generally speak...
Many software developers probably would agree that estimation of implementation costs is one of the most complex SDLC issues, even when a good requirements specification is available as a pre-condition. Now, what about estimation of the cost of developing that requirements specification itself? Would anyone care to share their experien...
I need a tool for collecting feedback and new ideas inside our company regarding our internal IS product. The problem is the acceptance level for such a tool. Most of our colleagues are not IT oriented, so a solution like BugZilla or Jira is way to complicated for them to use. You need to create an account, take care of a lot of paramete...
What are the best set of details to give to a programmer to define a project? Simply put, I know what I want done, but I know nothing about programming and so what is the best way to define my project to a programmer so he/she gives me what I need. i.e project summary, design brief, flow charts? ...
What are the main differences between search engines (DtSearch , Lucene.net, Sphinx, Google etc) that should influence the decision as to which to use to search proprietary data? The data to be searched consists of presentation-free data that is marked up with metadata in the form of name/value pairs. We’re not interested in the format...
I'm about to undertake a personal project, but I'm having trouble coming up with background information in the problem domain. I have some experience, and Google has provided me with more, but I'm still not sure that I have all of the information I need. If you have ever been in this situation, either at work or on your own, what did you...
I need to define the system requirements hardware and software for building a E-Commerce Web application with SSL (more than 40 bits). I have no experience with SSL, so i have no idea how to configure or what apache version do i need. This are my thoughts: Operating System Linux Web Server: Apache DBMS: MySQL 5.0 or bigger Application ...
Hi, Say we are creating Acme CMS. This CMS web application will allow you to create an unlimited number of categories with sub-categories (unlimited depth), and each category can have 0+ content pages associated with it. So this project, at a high level will have: Front End 1. index page 2. category page with list of content pages...
I would to be a PHP/Mysql Programmer what is the technologies that i must know ? Like :- Frameworks IDEs Template Engines Ajax and Css Frameworks please tell me the minimum requirements that i must know , and tell me your favourite things in the previous list ? thanks ...
Some time ago I came to realize that almost every customer project that I have been working on so far has neglected an important group of stakeholders: the system administrators. These silent heroes are usually only involved at the end of a project and are left with an executable black box of bits that they have to install, support, and...
We want to standardize the way we are starting projects. Most of the company is running off Agile but we want to have common bases. An exemple would be to customize the "Process Template" inside TFS and add our own work items with our own workflow for specific task/request coming from the client. We would also love a better way to gat...
Is there a repository on the web with good sample Use Cases for Software Development projects? I'm really not looking for a template. I'm actually looking for a document which is a good sample that I can use as a reference. A word document. ...
Other than pencil & paper? I found freemind, the mapping tool very useful. Any other ideas? ...
If you had to do without one or the other in a software project, which would you pick? I've had plenty of projects in which the client or PM thought they could get away without one or the other. We always paid the price. ...
It’s been only recently that I have been responsible for requirement gathering and I am quite overwhelmed by my inability to capture ALL requirements. At the end of a release requirements slip and I am, to say the least quite annoyed with me. In the upcoming release I seem to be going crazy. I have one too many questions that I would li...