Please banish the use of the word “Requirements” from your software development lexicon. Immediately. For many software teams the requirements document is the king of documents. You know the routine. The software team works with the customer (or customer proxy) to put together a “complete” list of “requirements”. Once that is done, the team writes [...]
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Nothing is required, it’s all about features
Posted in software development methodology, tagged agile, features, requirements on August 26, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Be Careful When You Remove Features
Posted in software development methodology, tagged don't do this, features, twitter on May 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Almost on queue, Twitter has recently done (twice!) what I’ve been thinking about lately. They have removed features. Removing features is very tricky and fraught with problems, even if those features are used by very few people.
New Twitter Notification Emails are Broken
Posted in programming, software usability, tagged features, twitter on May 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »
So the twitter changed their notification emails for when someone follows you. And they are definitely an improvement over the old notifications. But they are broken. I’ve read several articles talking about the “richer, HTML version” of the email. Richer? What year is it? Formatting doesn’t make something “rich”, data does. Data is rich, markup [...]
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