Reply To DRU Post Wow. I could write a book, start a consulting firm, and do the lecture circuit on what you just posted. I guess we are all doing the same things?
I have been through everything you have described. From my limited experience; - The transition points between SDLC and PLM and the new Agile process are critical and you must have total commit and buy in. SDLC and BRD lifecycles should be looked at as Release Planning. The full SDLC becomes a Release, so Agile actually forces something few companies do well, which is a "real" vision that has 10 year and 5 year roadmap cycles that are not feature based. But that right there is so alien to senior management, especially when they quit and quit and quit whenever ownership comes up. - BRD's are a competing set of poorly formed requirements. The BRD might have a place if you are using it like people here are, they are getting creative with it to address strategic portfolio management. Not a top down, but a bottom up approach. - Backlogs written as Goal Driven Narratives (aka User Stories) and prioritized around themes (one to many) let you write periodic User Tests that have end to end workflows. This deals with the big problems with SCRUM, namely, weak or poor Product Owner(s)(should be a team, not a person), and programmers building things in pieces that at the end of Sprints cant be demoed by a User/Actor. - Larry Constantine is your friend - JIRA is a wonderful tool that can be used as part of a Bayseian Engine with something like BigVisibleCruize and rBehave. I cant say enough good things about it. To the abstract models... exactly. I am dying to share what I have, the time is know. Flick a switch and you have Ben Fry like abstraction models of the systems and research that is all fully automated. Come on everyone, put down your NDA's and share. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=47181 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
