Seasoned project managers and experienced software engineers know that expectation management is an important part of any successful software development project. And managing expectations dictates ...

Some days, you wish you had telepathy. You just know that your development staff is holding back in some way, but you don’t know how to get them to communicate. Is the project in trouble, but they’re ...

To begin any embedded system-level design, the developer needs a clear understanding of what the final software design must accomplish. The source of this information is the system requirements ...

In the world of modeling, design and development, it is important to define the requirements of an application before you begin. But requirements change. So it is just as important to manage how the ...

Hugh Cumming had his work cut out for him. The gap between what his not-yet-implemented call center management application at a large European company could do and the requirements list created by 40 ...

After my five years of experience as an object-oriented programmer followed by two years of experience as a test system engineer with the Product Design Group of Hughes Network Systems, I have come to ...

Medical devices have to be designed so that people can use them easily and reliably. Human factors considerations have gained increased attention since the release of FDA's guidance document, Medical ...

It's certainly important to define the requirements of an application before a development project begins but, as we all know, requirements change. It is, therefore, just as important to manage how ...