Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Reviewing Document Deliverables

Here's a scenario I'd like to run to review the diocumentation deliverables produced during software development.

  • Collect stakeholders from representative groups.
  • Get a room with the wall covered with butchers paper.
  • Draw a box representing each deliverable on the walls of the room.
  • Write each piece of content in each deliverable on index cards and stick them in the boxes they're currently in.
  • Take the cards down into stacks
  • Everyone votes on what they need for their function to work (Not what they produce, what they need) using one of the many requirement prioritisation tricks around
  • Throw the bottom %50 away.
  • Assign the cards to whoever produces them
  • Define dependencies and set out a time lines
  • Owners collect cards into deliverables based on the time line
  • Say hello to your new deliverable

    Anyone game to let me try it?
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