Software Requirements Talk Podcast

The Inhibited Analyst

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 08:41:01 -0800

Requirements analysts need to be more inquisitive and know why people want things as well as what happens beforehand. This requires them to become less inhibited and keep asking questions until they and their stakeholders are satisfied with the answers.

What Time Is It, Eccles?

Fri, 28 Oct 2011 09:17:09 -0700

Requirements analysts need a new toolbox with both the right tools and the instructions to use them including agile development and user-centered design for techniques such as analysis of Web analytics, wire-framing, and user stories. We can also look to the creativity literature and take techniques such as constraint removal, storytelling, and other worlds.

Requirements Analysis: The Next Generation

Wed, 14 Sep 2011 13:18:10 -0700

Most requirements research and vision papers tend to focus on the near future, one research advance at a time. This podcast explores requirements practices 20 years from now, based on predicted changes to technologies, applications, and stakeholders.

Requirements and Aesthetics

Wed, 27 Apr 2011 12:31:19 -0700

Requirements people rarely talk about aesthetics. Neil Maiden draws on the 10 principles of good design from Dieter Rams to examine the important roles of aesthetics in requirements practices.

GORE, SORE, or What?

Mon, 20 Dec 2010 08:24:29 -0800

Competing schools of thought in both research and industry advocate different approaches to requirements. Each favors one particular kind of artifact, such as scenarios, goals, priorities, and context models. Perhaps a mix-and-match approach that combines requirement methods would be more effective.

Storyboarding Requirements

Mon, 15 Nov 2010 14:10:42 -0800

This installment of Software Requirements Talk describes a way to use storyboards to capture the interplay between human interaction and service design and so improve the quality of service design delivery.

Oi! Analysts

Mon, 9 Aug 2010 09:44:44 -0700

Certification for requirements analysts requires focusing on a small, possibly unrepresentative, set of tasks that might not reflect domain knowledge and could lead to good analysts not getting certified because they don't do well on the exam.

Service Design, It's All in the Brand

Mon, 9 Aug 2010 09:42:30 -0700

This podcast argues that requirements analysts will soon need to deal with service design, and describes one service design method to demonstrate the challenges that analysts will face. Copyright 2010, IEEE, Inc., All Rights Reserved

Agile Requirements

Thu, 5 Aug 2010 10:16:39 -0700

This installment looks at agile techniques in requirements processes, summarizes their successes and failures so far, and proposes that we re-consider our use of electronic documentation in requirements projects. Copyright 2010, IEEE, Inc., All Rights Reserved