When Requirements Can’t Fly!
In today’s VUCA world - volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous - many projects fail for a subtle reason: some requirements look right but quietly break the rules that hold …
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Requirements for cross-cutting qualities
Assuring cross-cutting quality is a challenge that has become increasingly important as systems grow more complex. This also impacts how Requirements Engineering (RE) approaches …
AI Assistants in Requirements Engineering | Part 2
Welcome to the second part of our exploration of AI assistants in Requirements Engineering. In Part 1, we discussed the art of effective prompting, introduced the concept of AI …
AI Assistants in Requirements Engineering | Part 1
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is playing an increasingly critical role in various industries, and Requirements Engineering (RE) is no exception. Large Language Models (LLMs) are AI …
Splitting Requirements at Scale
Analysis means breaking down large problems into smaller, more manageable ones. We, as BAs, understand intuitively that this is what we do and that how well we do this will likely …
Conversation with an Artificial Intelligence
This last decade has seen several breakthroughs in Artificial Intelligence (AI), in particular machine learning, with groundbreaking applications in all domains. It seems like it …
Why Your Agile Organization Needs a High-Performing Requirements Engineering Competency
In this article, I’m going to answer a question that I’ve been asked from people with stakes in requirements engineering (RE) and its sister competency, business analysis - …
Mission Possible
Concept for the successful handling of integral NFRs in Scaled Agile Environments.
Challenges in the elicitation and determination of precise requirements from animal stakeholders
Dogs do speak, but only to those who know how to listen. Orhan Pamuk
KCycle: Knowledge-Based & Agile Software Quality Assurance
Agile paradigms and DevOps approaches have changed software engineering processes by focusing on iterativity, communication and collaboration between different project roles. …
The Genius Toddler Challenge
“How hard can it be?” is a question posed by virtually everybody at one point or another regarding a line of work they are currently not involved in. We all know how hard it is to …
An “agile” lifecycle for requirements
In a previous article [1], we claimed that at least in certain circumstances, for certain types of systems, the requirements management discipline is still necessary in an agile …