{"id":707,"date":"2023-09-11T10:27:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-11T09:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8082\/?p=707"},"modified":"2024-11-02T23:42:45","modified_gmt":"2024-11-02T23:42:45","slug":"when-you-should-seriously-consider-software-requirements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/localhost:8082\/2023\/09\/11\/when-you-should-seriously-consider-software-requirements\/","title":{"rendered":"When you should seriously consider software requirements"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Whilst not every team needs software requirements, there are some that would really benefit. Developers who don&#8217;t speak to end users, are distanced from the business stakeholders, and who work in remote, outsourced and offshore teams are ideal candidates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Having a business analyst gather your software requirements, write user stories and validate their acceptance criteria, would really be most valuable in the following situations:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Concerns for end-user safety and risk of adverse effects<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Regulated environments with heavy compliance<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Moderate to large number of developers<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Developers who prefer to cut code rather than speaking to users<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Junior or inexperienced developers<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Working across several timezones<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Complicated backend systems and data stores to integrate with<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Multiple channels of customer feedback and insight<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Busy, absent or otherwise non-engaged product owner<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Product owner who doesn\u2019t have the time to write user stories<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Pixel-perfect designs produced ahead of developer involvement<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Outsourced development of core business capabilities<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Long-cycle times for customer feedback<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>When the technical team has partial visibility of the end product<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Having a 5-year product vision but not a 3-month delivery plan<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>An organisation struggling to adopt agile working<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>A catalogue of software development anti-patterns perhaps, but also an honest account of what many software development teams look like, particularly within large enterprise settings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Focusing on the software development process would improve things over time; however, stakeholders often demand an urgent need for software delivery and tangible progress, above all else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Software requirements will mitigate short-term delivery pressures, whilst allowing longer-term improvements and best practices to be implemented over time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whilst not every team needs software requirements, there are some that would really benefit. Developers who don&#8217;t speak to end users, are distanced from the business stakeholders, and who work in remote, outsourced and offshore teams are ideal candidates. Having a business analyst gather your software requirements, write user stories and validate their acceptance criteria, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,26,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-analysis","category-legacy-system-replacement","category-software-requirements","missing-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost:8082\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707"}],"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=707"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/localhost:8082\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1041,"href":"http:\/\/localhost:8082\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707\/revisions\/1041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost:8082\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost:8082\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost:8082\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}