Software Development Toolbox

Iteration helps you stay on course.                                       

Plan out and balance your iterations when ( not if ) change occurs

Every iteration results in working software and gathers feedback from your customer every step of the way

Deliver software that's needed.

Deliver software on time

Deliver software on budget

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Collect Requirements

Talk to your customer to get MORE information, each time you have more questions, and talk with the customer ot get answers to your questions.

Bluesky with your customer

THINK BIG. Brainstorm with other people: two heads are better than one, and ten heads better than two, as long as everyone feels they can contribute withour criticism.

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Your requirements must be CUSTOMER-oriented

A requirement should be written in the customer's language and read like a user STORY, a story about how their users interact with the software you're building.

Estimate for Each user story in days.

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When a user story's estimate breaks the 15-day rule, you can either: 1) Break your stories into smaller, more easily estimated stories; 2) Talk to your customer ... again.

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Capturing basic ideas ==>> Bluesky Brainstorming ==>> Constructing User Stories ==>> Finding holes in clarity ==>> Clear, Customer-Focused User Stories ==>> Play planning poker ==>> Get any missing information from the customer, and break up large user stories ==>> Estimate how long all of the customer's requirements will take.