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For fans of Back to the Future and Nike shoes, Nike’s HyperAdapt 1.0 fulfills an idea most people thought might never come true — the first ever self-lacing shoe. Meant to embody Marty McFly’s Nike Mag shoes in Back to the Future, these new shoes are meant to be a platform for …
*SPOILER ALERT* if you watch Silicon Valley and have not seen Season 3 Episode 9 you may want to stop here. I was watching HBO’s Silicon Valley the other day and found this latest episode very intriguing (not to mention hilarious) because it touched on the importance of usability, user …
Lately, I’ve been working on an Agile project where all the requirements are written in the user story and acceptance criteria format. The acceptance criteria on this project are really the meat and potatoes of the requirements. They tell the developers what to develop and how the system should act …
I recently began teaching our training courses here at Seilevel and one of the topics we cover is validation and verification. In the training, we ask the students to brainstorm what validation and verification are and how they apply to software requirements. Surprisingly, to me at least, there are many …
As projects run long and budgets get tight, the first thing that gets squeezed is testing. Even with the best of intentions, the planning, design, and development phases often go longer than expected. In order to meet that precious target rollout date, testing can get rushed. However, it is really …
Poor requirements too often result in delay and expensive rework, but in the case of a Miami prison that repeatedly released all of its maximum security inmates from their cells, missed requirements caused serious injury. As reported by Wired Magazine, on two separate occasions the doors of Turner Guilford Knight …
There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you’ve made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you’ve made a discovery. Enrico Fermi There are four key factors that determine how effective any feature is in achieving its design objectives. They are: …
Let’s say you’ve been engaged in a project that’s much needed by the company. Let’s say that it has had a past filled with failure. Let’s say that it’s on the chopping block to be cut, due to being a seemingly money pit. Let’s say that you’re on a super …
A while ago, Joy wrote a post about how to prep for a UAT (User Acceptance Testing). I would like to add to that, with my own experience, for what is needed in order to prep for a UAT. I had a client once who was building an internal …
Everyone hates going through and reviewing large documents – no one wants to sit down and read a 300 page software requirements specification (SRS) or business requirements document (BRD) and provide feedback. However, it is a necessary task! How else will the business know that they are getting what they …
