Statistics: (2040 Views) (0 Comments) Print Posted: Tuesday, March 06, 2007 Categories: Requirements Analysis (BABOK KA), Leadership & Management

Some days, you wish you had telepathy. You just know that your development staff is holding back in some way, but you don’t know how to get them to communicate. Is the project in trouble, but they’re afraid to tell you?

Since your software development staff won’t tell you what they’re really thinking, I asked them to confide in us instead. I posed a single question to professional programmers and testers: If you could get your CIO to understand just one thing about software requirements, what would it be? From the answers, I collated the five things at the top of their minds. If you grok these concepts, you will win the respect and support of your programming department (prizes you’ll also earn for understanding the term "grok"), and you’ll optimize the chance of success for your next software project.

I must warn you that this will shock some developers. Most of them don’t expect you to have a clue.

Author: Esther Schindler

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