This chapter provides an overview of the Volere Requirements Process and its associated specification template, introducing many of the topics that are covered more thoroughly in the rest of the book....   Read Article.

If you do not think it is worthwhile to spend resources on a good build process, your product will not be successful. This chapter will teach you not only how to design a good build process, but also why it is so vital to your project to do so....   Read Article.

This chapter from A Requirements Pattern: Succeeding in the Internet Economy introduces you to a requirements set framework that organizes individual requirements into specific categories, which will help you find gaps in knowledge and identify ......   Read Article.

Design a successful requirements workshop that meets the needs of stakeholders and decision makers. Learn how to build an effective repository of workshop products; learn the most effective questions to ask to determine workshop input and feedback; and learn how to add visual value to deliverables....   Read Article.

You need a way to control the rate of change in the code you are developing without falling too far out of step with the evolving codeline. You can do this be creating a private workspace, where you control the versions of code and components you are working on, giving you total control over when and how your environment changes.n n...   Read Article.

If the answer to that question is eluding you, then learn exactly what configuration management consists of and what it means to software development and your company....   Read Article.

This chapter uses the extended metaphor of designing and building a bridge to illustrate the concepts and practice of ClearCase Deployment....   Read Article.

This chapter gives a bird's eye view of decision-making, and asks the questions, "Just how different is your decision-making process from consulting tea leaves or a crystal ball?"...   Read Article.

Software is easy to change?too easy. And not only is it easy to change, but it is unconstrained by the physical laws that serve as the guardrails of what is possible with hardware systems. Software is bounded only by the limits of the human imagination. Uncontrolled and undirected, imagination can quickly give rise to nightmare. Software configuration...   Read Article.