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04.10.2010
Requirements & Scope
In my last blog I made fun of requirements management & scope management concluding neither was worth the trouble. The only relevant point I did make however, was that its very easy to dismiss something out of hand if you deliberately omit to define the concepts your are talking about; in case of the provoking blog these where requirement and scope. Let me focus on scope first. At least 3 different meanings of...
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20.04.2010
Requirements defined or confined by, “the scope”
Can we create a list of in and out of scope requirements and consider this ”the scope”? Alternatively, are our requirements in or out of scope because we can check our requirements against a separate scope definition? A requirement is within scope because the requirement is marked “in scope”. There seems to be something wrong with this statement. It is like telling a child “because I say so”. It is fast and...
