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Software Requirements Essentials: Core Practices for Successful Business Analysis

Software Requirements Essentials: Core Practices for Successful Business Analysis

This book describes the 20 most important practices for any software project, regardless of product type or development approach.

2023

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A Fool with a Tool Is an Amplified Fool

Tools can boost a software developer’s capability, but ineffective or inappropriate tool usage amplifies their shortcomings as well.

Sep 30

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Sep 30

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A Compilation of Articles by Karl Wiegers

Here’s an index with more than 130 of my articles on business analysis, product design, project management, quality, writing, and more.

Apr 14

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Apr 14

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You Say You Want to Write a Book?

It’s an exciting prospect. It’s also a lot of work. Here are some tips for getting started, based on 14 books’ worth of experience.

Feb 26

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Feb 26

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The Essential Practices for Business Analysis Success

These twenty requirements practices can make the difference between happy success and painful struggling.

Oct 4, 2023

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Oct 4, 2023

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Crow’s Feet: Life As We Age

Karl and/or Chris Has Left the Building

You’re going to die eventually. Make things easier for your family by organizing essential information before they need it.

Nov 14, 2023

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Nov 14, 2023

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Which Comes First, the Process or the System?

Do you build a software system to fit a new or modified business process, or do you implement the system first and then change the process?

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Independent Consulting: Clients from Hell

Most of my many consulting clients have been easy to work with. A few, though, have been more trouble than they’re worth. Here’s why.

5d ago

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Gentle Pressure, Relentlessly Applied

When steering an organization toward new ways of working, leaders should apply steady, consistent, but gentle persuasion.

Dec 2

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Dec 2

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Requirements Quality Is in the Eye of the Beholder

It doesn’t matter how good you think the requirements you write are. If they aren’t clear to other people, they need improvement.

Nov 25

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Nov 25

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Dealing with Unreasonable People

No engineering or management technique will be effective if you’re working with unreasonable people.

Nov 18

Dealing with Unreasonable People

Nov 18

Karl Wiegers

Karl Wiegers

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Author of 14 books, mostly on software. PhD in organic chemistry. Guitars, wine, and military history fill the voids. karlwiegers.com and processimpact.com

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