The Making of Software is about software and software-based systems: How can we develop, manage, and improve them? — It comes to you as a blog with additional resources. A special focus is on tool-based requirements management.
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Blog Articles
Was ist eigentlich Produktmanagement?
Selbst innerhalb der Software-Branche verstehen viele die Rolle des Produktmanagers nicht ganz. Vielleicht kommt hier in Deutschland noch erschwerend hinzu, dass in der Umgangssprache Marketing hauptsächlich mit Werbung und PR assoziiert wird. Dann gibt es ja auch...
What is Product Management, Really?
Even within the software industry, many professionals misunderstand the role of the product manager. Perhaps this problem is compounded by the fact that in German colloquial language, marketing is often treated as a synonym for advertizing and PR. On top of that, we...
Pathways to Requirements Based 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...
Who Owns the Requirements
When it comes to the question of who owns the requirements the answer is sometimes surprising. Depending on the titles used in an organization we may hear requirements analyst, business analyst or product manager. Others might name development manager, solution...
Agile Metrics Grid
Recently, Gerald Heller an I discussed about metrics used in agile development, agile testing metrics in particular. We found quite a number of relevant metrics and sought a way to structure them. Partly inspired by Brian Marick's testing quadrants (see Lisa Crispin's...
Goal/Question/Metric (GQM)
Goal/Question/Metric (GQM) is an established and elaborated method for measurement in software engineering. I have been using it, and doing evaluation research and method development on it since the 1990-ies. It can be useful in particular for the following purposes:...