by Andreas Birk | 15/07/2014 | agile, literature, product management, requirements, software engineering
by Andreas Birk and Gerald Heller When agile methods emerged during the 1990s and until quite long into the first decade of the 21st century, agile requirements were widely synonymous with user stories. This was a major contribution and step forward for requirements...
by Andreas Birk | 28/02/2014 | agile, requirements, software engineering, tools
For the February 2014 update of our list of requirements management (RM) tools, my colleague Gerald Heller and I researched for other lists of requirements tools, in order to extend and complement our collection. In the following you find the results of our...
by Andreas Birk | 02/04/2013 | requirements, software engineering
When working with software requirements, it is sometimes useful to reflect about what exactly software requirements are? As with most software engineering terms, also for software requirements there doesn’t exist a generally agreed-upon definition. So one can...
by Andreas Birk | 06/03/2013 | requirements, tools
Requirements Management (RM) is a very complex task that can only be accomplished with the support of suitable tools. Even small software projects need at least some manual tools like index cards or flip charts for supporting clarification and communication of...
by Andreas Birk | 06/12/2010 | literature, requirements, testing
Andreas Birk published the article “Pfade zum Requirements-basierten Testen” in issue 17 of the German SQ Magazin. He elaborated several paths how to achieve requirements-based testing. In summary: Test manager can benefit substantially from an established...
