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» Agile Requirements Best Practices

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Posted by: Adrian Marchis on Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Categories: Requirements Analysis (BABOK KA), Agile Methods, Requirements Management and Communication (BABOK KA), Solution Assessment and Validation (BABOK KA)

To be honest, I'm not very enamored with the term "best practice". I believe that the term "contextual practice" makes far more sense because what is a "best practice" in some situations proves to be a "worst practice" in others. Having said that, people are interested in best practices so here they are when it comes to agile requirements modeling:

  • Stakeholders actively participate
  • Adopt inclusive models
  • Take a breadth-first approach
    Model storm details just in time (JIT)
  • Prefer executable requirements over static documentation
    Your goal is to implement requirements, not document them
  • Create platform independent requirements to a point
  • Smaller is better
  • Question traceability
  • Explain the techniques
  • Adopt stakeholder terminology
  • Keep it fun
  • Obtain management support
  • Turn stakeholders into developers
  • Treat requirements like a prioritized stack

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