{"id":362,"date":"2024-01-18T08:40:09","date_gmt":"2024-01-18T08:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8082\/?p=362"},"modified":"2024-07-05T11:30:45","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T10:30:45","slug":"better-software-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/localhost:8082\/2024\/01\/18\/better-software-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Better Software UK"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"http:\/\/localhost:8082\/wp-content\/uploads\/thisisengineering-yaDGlZOsYoM-unsplash-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-555\" srcset=\"http:\/\/localhost:8082\/wp-content\/uploads\/thisisengineering-yaDGlZOsYoM-unsplash-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/localhost:8082\/wp-content\/uploads\/thisisengineering-yaDGlZOsYoM-unsplash-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/localhost:8082\/wp-content\/uploads\/thisisengineering-yaDGlZOsYoM-unsplash-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/localhost:8082\/wp-content\/uploads\/thisisengineering-yaDGlZOsYoM-unsplash-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/localhost:8082\/wp-content\/uploads\/thisisengineering-yaDGlZOsYoM-unsplash-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, http:\/\/localhost:8082\/wp-content\/uploads\/thisisengineering-yaDGlZOsYoM-unsplash-1200x800.jpg 1200w, http:\/\/localhost:8082\/wp-content\/uploads\/thisisengineering-yaDGlZOsYoM-unsplash-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size\"><em>Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@thisisengineering?utm_content=creditCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=unsplash\">ThisisEngineering<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/grayscale-photo-of-2-men-in-black-jacket-and-helmet-yaDGlZOsYoM?utm_content=creditCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=unsplash\">Unsplash<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"bd36\">Some developers never speak to an actual user or business stakeholder. This is particularly common in remote development teams in enterprise settings, unfortunately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"c4bb\">Developers sit in low-rent satellite offices, offshore development \u2019centres of excellence\u2019 and supplier silos. Yet, excellent software and delighting users is still the mandate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"6873\">When did you last see developers sitting next to users or business people, speaking daily and co-creating new features? Does this even happen outside of the smallest of startups? This style of closely coupled, co-located agile development is dead for many developers (and users, and business stakeholders by extension).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"690e\">I\u2019ve felt the term \u2019software requirements\u2019 has been overshadowed by a dark cloud for a long while, but less so with agile losing its sheen and an acknowledgement that \u2018placeholders for conversations\u2019 might not be the best way to go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"0014\">Many developers aren\u2019t sitting with users; even if they were, many wouldn\u2019t want to or know what to do. Written communication is required, in some form or other. Developers cannot telepathically read the minds of users from afar, and I\u2019m sorry if that sounds unpalatable to you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"1666\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bettersoftware.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Better Software UK<\/a>, a software requirements consultancy, is launched today to drastically improve the working lives of many developers. We will provide better software requirements to development teams and their managers who don\u2019t collaborate directly with end users but still need to delight them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by ThisisEngineering on Unsplash Some developers never speak to an actual user or business stakeholder. This is particularly common in remote development teams in enterprise settings, unfortunately. Developers sit in low-rent satellite offices, offshore development \u2019centres of excellence\u2019 and supplier silos. Yet, excellent software and delighting users is still the mandate. When did you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-better-software-uk","category-software-requirements","missing-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost:8082\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost:8082\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost:8082\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost:8082\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost:8082\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/localhost:8082\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":556,"href":"http:\/\/localhost:8082\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions\/556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost:8082\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost:8082\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost:8082\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}