David Wright

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Are we past the period of "Agile vs. Traditional"arguments?

Are we past the period of "Agile vs. Traditional"arguments?Using Twitter and various industry newsletters, I try to keep up on the state of systems...

Using requirements tool remotely.

I have just realized that my last post here was months and months ago... probably due to a combination of being busy with work...

Getting to FRs, part 3 – it’s the process, dammit

People expect a lot from their information systems, but it usually it comes down to one thing: the system has to do stuff. When...

Getting to FRs, part 2 – Scope is not just mouth wash…

Let me reprise the words of Mr. Brooks ...“… the hardest single part of software development deciding precisely what to build." Fred Brooks Author of...

Getting to Functional Requirements, part 1 – the never-ending open-ended question…

Back to the nasty question - what sort of Information System shall will we build?"What sort of system do you want?""hmmm, one that processes...

The "R" Word

  Software is a uniquely new invention, different than anything else we humans have come up with in the past. ...    "The software-controlled electronic...

Information Systems Users don’t know what they want… So, don’t ask them what they want…

Information Systems Users don't know what they want... So, don't ask them what they want: and definitely don't write some software and then say...

It’s summer, on a great project, and now on vacation…

... so who has time to write and blog? I feel good and lazy at the same time. An author coach I have talked...

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