An example of unrealistic expectations in the service industry
Filed Under Development, Issues, Model, Problems, Resources | Posted on July 29, 2008
This is a true example from around 6 years back when I was working for an IT software solutions provider (the firm did software projects for different customers). This was a decent sized company that had something like 12000 people on the rolls, doing everything from development to testing to requirements analysis, and so on. [...]
Hiring a consultant for generating your requirements: Part 2 of an external article
Filed Under Consultant, Development, Requirements | Posted on July 20, 2008
The previous article presented the DragonPoint.com article outlining 5 essential steps that you need to take when you have people hired to do requirements analysis for a project. Well, here is the link to the part 2 of this article that outlines tips 6 – 10 for the requirements gathering process (link). These next 5 [...]
Hiring a consultant for generating your requirements: Part 1 of an external article
Filed Under Consultant, Improvement, Process, Requirements | Posted on July 8, 2008
Requirements gathering for a software project (that you really need to expand or maintain your business) is a tough job; the toughness is because it is not an exact science. It depends on the type of project, depends on the nature of the people who will enumerate the requirements, and it depends on the capability [...]
