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September 7, 2009 by mensming.
One of the things I love is being able to see presentations from conferences I was unable to attend. A coworker passed on a link to this video (55 minutes) from the Business of Software conference. In the talk, Jason Fried of 37Signals, makes of Ruby on Rails and Basecamp, speaks on many aspects of running a software company and keeping teams working effectively.
Here are some of the slide titles, topics and items Jason discussed:
An enjoyable video, especially the first half before the Q&A session.
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December 31, 2006 by mensming.
I recently received an invitation to join the Yahoo Requirements Engineering Group. This led me to thinking about my definition of a requirement. I saw a similar definition in a document (it was part of the boilerplate text) delivered by a consultant at a prior position. It was the most useful item in the document… (For the life of me, I cannot remember who the consultant nor firm was.)
Requirement - A testable assertion of a customer’s need.
I like this definition a lot because it is simple and lacks a lot of the technical jargon or background knowledge required for other definitions. The terms are understandable by business users. The one thing I always add when I deliver this definition is that customer is not limited to our external customers - it is inclusive of all our internal customers.
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