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should developers have a say in functional requirements
I fail to see how you can carry out requirements engineering activities effectively without the involvement of developers.
A business analyst or product manager may be very good at working with ...
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What techniques can identify missing requirements?
I'm not entirely sure if that is still "project management", but what has helped me in my developer role is to actually take a day and do the work that my program is supposed to improve.
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should developers have a say in functional requirements
Everyone in a development team should take responsibility for and be involved in requirements gathering to some extent, otherwise you have barriers to effective teamwork.
"The best architectures, ...
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Lately discovered requirements in Scrum
If a requirement is discovered in the middle of a project or even later, then the cost of implementation of this requirement can be very high.
In this statement you are saying that the cost of change ...
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Is it possible to be agile with a highly technical project?
Everything in your question suggests that you are exploring a new problem, not simply creating something you already know exactly how to build. Because waterfall asks you to create your design ...
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What techniques can identify missing requirements?
Software is never finished, merely abandoned.
Don't remember who said this first, but it's true. After you spend some time in the industry, you inevitably reach the same conclusion. And based on this, ...
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Making backlog items independent - how that can be achieved?
You cannot totally eliminate dependencies. Some story will depend on another, some feature will need another feature to be built first, some new feature will be desired only after you see and interact ...
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should developers have a say in functional requirements
Developer here. I have seen projects fail because a functional requirement was impossible to implement. I'll tell you a tale where I was involved.
We were working with a piece of hardware that allowed ...
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How to ensure developers don't sneak in code not part of requirements?
There is a lot you can do that ensures that the code does what it's supposed to do, but aside from trusting the people developing it (including their reviewers) there is basically no way to make sure ...
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SAFe, are developers required to gather their own requirements?
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Your company has not implemented SAFe; they have implemented Buzzword Management™. In this case, the interplay between roles has been applied incorrectly. Core responsibility for requirements ...
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Project Objectives vs Stakeholder Needs
Project Objectives are typically higher level than individual Stakeholder Requirements. They usually come first, created up-front in the Project Initiation phase before you've delved in to individual ...
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How to ensure developers don't sneak in code not part of requirements?
Using a Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) or Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD) approach means that the code is self documenting. So introducing functionality beyond the original requirements ...
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Could the Product Owner be a user of a user story in Scrum?
Two things come to mind.
First, if you can't trace the need to a stakeholder impacted by the system, is it actually a requirement? Unnecessary features and gold-plating is a waste, in the Lean sense. ...
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Could the Product Owner be a user of a user story in Scrum?
The only time the Product Owner would be named in a user story is if you are building a product that is designed for Product Owners.
I need to write some requirements affecting directly to the ...
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Lately discovered requirements in Scrum
Prioritisation, continuous delivery and review is the way to control delivery risk for any software development, not just when using Scrum. I can't agree with the first sentence of your question ...
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Lately discovered requirements in Scrum
You say:
If a requirement is discovered in the middle of a project or even later, then the cost of implementation of this requirement can be very high.
This can be true or can be false. It depends ...
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Documenting requirements on an Agile project
There are three agile principles that are at play:
"Working software over comprehensive documentation" from the Agile Manifesto.
"Simplicity--the art of maximizing the amount of work not done--is ...
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Are Delighters equivalent to Gold Plating?
These are two judgement labels applied to the exact same behavior, based on the outcome. If you get it right, the customer is delighted. If you get it wrong, you gold plated and the customer is ...
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Doubt defining functional requirements
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Every organization has its own way of defining requirements. There is no "one true way" to specify them. If you want to know how requirements should be written in your organization, you'll need ...
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Is it possible to be agile with a highly technical project?
Validated Learning
Agile approaches involve validated learning. Wikipedia defines the steps of validated learning as:
Specify a goal
Specify a metric that represents the goal
Act to achieve the goal
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When requirement changes comes during the sprint, who takes the final decision to include or not
The final decision is up to the product owner. If it's really, really, really important, the product owner could just cancel the current sprint and start a new one with just this single story in it.
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should developers have a say in functional requirements
Anyone can have a say in the product requirements. Even the analyst's mistress may offer some input. That said, it is analysts' job to analyze, combine, synthesize, and prioritize both requirements ...
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Is onboarding a non-functional requirement?
TL;DR: No. Onboarding is a waste.
Time and effort invested "Onboarding" is neither a functional or a non-functional requirement. In our project, we had failed to find how to address such ...
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How should a project manager handle a request for contracted software to produce twice as many reports as specified in the project's requirements?
One of the four values of agile is "Customer Collaboration over Contract Negotiation."
The first thing to ask is "what is best for the customer?". Once you've done that, then you ask "is it covered ...
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How to minimize scope creep?
I've been dealing a lot with a scope creep over the last 2 years. I created a list of things that is a must to keep in mind in order to minimize the negative impact on the project.
At first - you ...
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Should developers be talking to users during Story planning / refinement?
In certain situations I think they should, but there are a lot of caveats and gotchas to it. Let me list out reasons I have done it, and also times when I would not do it and maybe that will help as ...
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Should developers be talking to users during Story planning / refinement?
Yes, ofcourse, why should the development team settle for second hand information. Self-organizing teams should get the information from the source!
I really like this item from the Cargo Cult Agile ...
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How to avoid recurring questions and contradictions about same or related problems?
You don't need a project manager to run this project. In fact, unless heavily empowered all a project manager is going to do is give the headache to someone else.
What you need is to have a "product ...
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How to deal with constantly (~daily) changing requirements?
My first step would be to ask how you are doing Kanban?
Kanban is the go-to tool for rapidly changing requirements. The basic principle of "Have a board, have a WIP, prioritize daily", is incredibly ...
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How to deal with constantly (~daily) changing requirements?
I think the simple statement of your problem is that to plan you need to at least be able to count the number of things you need to do. However you have no base number right now besides the 800K & ...
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