Functional Requirements and their levels of granularity

The current issue of the RE Magazine addresses Agile with a couple of articles. Howard Podeswa draws the line from Agile to RE and Business Analysis, while Candase Hokanson and Joy Beatty address the challenges of scaling Agile to large Enterprises.

The article of Guilherme Siqueira Simões and Carlos Eduardo Vazquez presents a discussion about the levels of granularity that can be defined for functional requirements. Although the article is not specifically addressing Agile, the level of granularity is THE topic in discussions about requirements in Agile. When is enough, in fact, enough?

Once a product is in production, maintenance needs to be organized. Coping with change requests is a major challenge in that context as the impact of changes must be analyzed in order to avoid disruptive side effects. Harry Sneed and Birgit Demuth discuss the problem and present ways of resolving it.

Have you ever heard of confirmation bias? Read Manon Penning’s interesting follow up on her article “The Genius Toddler Challenge”, published in RE Magazine 2016-01!

Requirements are requirements, are requirements, are… Or are they perhaps goals? And if so, when and why? Some people might have doubts about that and Karol Frühauf again shares his doubts. We are looking forward to your comments!

Best wishes and enjoy reading…