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Product Development – Getting requirements and prioritization – Part 2




The previous post talked about how the Product Management team generated requirements for the new version of the product. When this happens, the next most important task is to get an idea about how much effort getting all these requirements into the product will take. This is easier said than done. Doing effort estimation when [...]



Product Development – Getting requirements and prioritization – Part 1




I have in mind a series of posts that explains how the product development process works inside one of the teams for a product development company (based on previous experiences). However, this story has been interrupted in the past, and I believe I last posted on this topic many months back. I will try to [...]



DFD: data flow diagram




Not everybody who has worked in the software development cycle has heard of what a Data Flow Diagram is, or what it does. So, for example, somebody who makes applications such as Windows or Office or PhotoShop may not need to know what a DFD is. However, for a team that is designing an application [...]



Questions regarding software testing and functionality




A couple of questions related to software testing, especially with regard to functionality ..

What if the application has functionality that wasn’t in the requirements? One might wonder how it is possible to have a situation where the application has functionality that was not in the requirements; but it is possible. In a badly controlled [...]