Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Requirements, Agile and Scrum


Ryan Shriver - aka The Agile Engineer - has some interesting comments on the requirements in Scrum projects - and Agile more generally. I tend agree with Ryan’s comments for a couple of reasons. Firstly I don’t think Scrum (or other Agile methods) really understand them. Secondly there is a lot more to requirements than is commonly realised.

Because Agile largely comes from the developer view we tend to neglect the bit that comes before but actually that is even more important in the long run. In the short run it is not important, in the long run it is vital. Agile methods have too simplistic a view of requirements, its all “user stories”. As Ryan says, there is more to it than that.


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