{"id":956,"date":"2024-10-24T10:29:10","date_gmt":"2024-10-24T09:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8082\/?p=956"},"modified":"2024-11-02T22:44:50","modified_gmt":"2024-11-02T22:44:50","slug":"fun-facts-from-the-underbelly-of-the-software-requirements-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/localhost:8082\/2024\/10\/24\/fun-facts-from-the-underbelly-of-the-software-requirements-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun facts from the underbelly of the software requirements industry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Here are some home truths from being in the software requirements business:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Most people can\u2019t tell the difference between a good and bad requirement<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Most people don\u2019t care, either<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Requirements – yawwwn<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. The \u2018perfect\u2019 requirement doesn\u2019t exist<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Many people place too much emphasis on format rather than substance<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  6. No two people have the same understanding of what a requirement actually is<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  7. Nobody wants to attend a workshop to agree on what a requirement is<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  8. Not many people own books on software requirements; fewer still have actually read them<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  9. Almost nobody has been formally trained in requirements<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  10. A minority still believe agile means \u2018no requirements\u2019 (gnarly dude)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  11. A slightly larger minority try to write all the requirements before hiring agile developers<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  12. Some people think \u2018all you need are user stories\u2019 is a Beatles song<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  13. One person tried to write GDPR as user stories, unsuccessfully<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  14. Acceptance criteria may be a hidden form of requirement, but true believers don\u2019t come out in public<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  15. No one spends three months writing a 300-page BRD anymore<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  16. Traceability is a taught concept that doesn\u2019t really happen in practice<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  17. Companies buy expensive tooling thinking it\u2019s necessary and will help<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  18. Not everybody agrees Atlassian is in the software requirements industry<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  19. Apparently, AI will completely automate the requirements industry, although I\u2019m still waiting for Mars to be colonised<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  20. Many don’t understand the difference between a requirement and a “nice to have”<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    And yet, everyone still expects quick, cheap, bug-free, regulatory compliant, impactful software \u2018experiences\u2019. Good luck with that Truman Show.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Although, if you did ask me, I do have one idea how it might happen\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Here are some home truths from being in the software requirements business: And yet, everyone still expects quick, cheap, bug-free, regulatory compliant, impactful software \u2018experiences\u2019. Good luck with that Truman Show. Although, if you did ask me, I do have one idea how it might happen\u2026<\/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-956","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\/956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=956"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/localhost:8082\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1017,"href":"http:\/\/localhost:8082\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956\/revisions\/1017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost:8082\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost:8082\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost:8082\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}