The book calls this Eliciting Requirements. They should be done in a collaborative environment. Generally either face to face meetings and/or virtual meetings. Being done in real time allows for faster feedback than over an email/text/phone calls, etc. The meetings should include developers as well as other stakeholders. Rules and an Agenda for the meeting…
Ideally everyone from stakeholders to developers would work on the same team and be of the same mind, but that isn’t always the case. In fact, that is rarely the case. Defining the Stakeholders The “Anyone who directly or indirectly benefits from the system being built” is a little too vague in my opinion. Instead,…
If you want a good project, then you need to have good requirements. Having good requirements doesn’t guarantee that you’ll have a good project, but having bad requirements guarantees that you’ll have a bad project. Project Inception There is no one place that a project “comes from”. A new product/project (feature set) can come from…
In the center of the page you’ll typically find one or more columns that contain content. Generally there is a larger column, and one or two smaller columns – often called a sidebar. The sidebar generally contains information about upcoming events, recent updates to the website, or various other pieces of information which is related…
At the bottom of the page, you can find the footer. This is where you traditionally found the copyright information, such as the year. Nowadays, with some modern legislation based in different countries’ laws, you can often find links to web privacy standards, terms or use (or usage), and the cookie usage policy to remain…
The Do-While loop is similar to the while loop. It is a conditional loop, just like the while loop, running the body of the loop while the condition is met. However, the big difference is that the do-while loop is a post-test loop. That means that the body runs at least once, and then there…
Previously, when we read from a file, it was easy to know what we were reading, as we created the file, and knew how many data elements we put into the file. But what if we don’t know? We just know we need to read the whole file and work with that data? That’s were…
A while loop says to perform a set of operations while a condition is true. It is known as a pre-test loop, because the condition is tested before the loop is run at all, meaning the body of the loop may never run. The general form for a while loop is: Notice that the loop…
