Stop Pushing Back on Scope Creep—Embrace It!

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I was a pup of a programmer back in 1980. I was working at Sperry Univac (yes, Univac). I recall as if it was yesterday, a grizzled project manager came up to me as I was about to add a feature to the mainframe (yes, Mainframe) software I was working on. Bob, he asked, why […]

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Predicting the Death of Requirement Micro-Management

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I was teaching a class a few weeks ago on Agile Methods. One of the crucial aspects of an introductory course, at least from my perspective, is an introduction to agile requirements. I usually start the discussion by trying to explain the large differences between traditional requirements and their agile equivalents. Now the end results […]

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