Tag: requirements
All the articles with the tag "requirements".
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INVEST and SPIDR both miss the point
INVEST is older. SPIDR is newer. The endless debate about which is better misses a structural flaw both share. They tell you whether a story is well-formed. They don't tell you whether it's worth building.
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Acceptance criteria that actually prevent bugs (with 12 worked examples)
Most acceptance criteria are written to look thorough, not to prevent bugs. Here's what the criteria that actually catch defects look like, with twelve real examples annotated.
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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.