Posts
All the articles I've posted.
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How I use Claude to interrogate my own requirements before showing them to engineering
I write the requirement. Claude tears it apart. I rewrite. The version that goes to engineering is roughly the fifth draft, and they ask half the questions they used to.
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Why "as a user, I want to..." is the worst thing that happened to user stories
The "as a user, I want X so that Y" template was a useful crutch in 2001. Twenty-five years later, it's a substitute for thinking. Here's what to write instead.
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The question most BAs forget to ask before opening Jira
Most requirements work starts with "what do they want?" That's the wrong first question. Here's the one that saves projects.
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Writing better user stories is the wrong goal. Here's what to optimise for instead.
There's a quiet epidemic in IT services teams. Business analysts and product owners are getting better at writing user stories. The stories are well-structured. They follow the template. They have crisp acceptance criteria. They pass every review. And the projects are still failing.