I recently read through Code Complete, and it recommends that I create a project specification before actually coding. The book didn't go very far into detail about what 'specs' are, and how...

In many embedded applications there is a tradeoff between making the code very efficient or isolating the code from the specific system configuration to be immune to changing requirements. What ki...

I'm trying to establish more formal requirements and testing procedures then we have now, but I can't find any good reference examples of documents involved. At the moment, after feature fre...

I need a tool for collecting feedback and new ideas inside our company regarding our internal IS product. The problem is the acceptance level for such a tool. Most of our colleagues are not I...

Does the idea of UI Driven Development make sense at all? Most of our clients like to convey their requirements in form of screens. For e.g. I want a screen to do THIS and THAT. Sometimes the...

While project managers may each have their own personality and management style, it seems that many of them have a pernicious love of sneaking in "scope creep" when they can (whether anyone i...

Steve Yegge's wisdom notwithstanding, most developers are faced with requirements which were gathered from non-technical customers. Sometimes there are project managers who deal with the cust...

How do you decide what the minimum system requirements are for a Windows application? (OS, RAM, HD, CPU). I usually go with my gut, but I'd like to be able to back that up with something.

What methods do you use to determine what kind of hardware you need for a server? I often find it very hard to predict what kind of hardware you will need for a web based application with a databa...

There are many tools out there for writing and managing requirements, but are there any good ones for reviewing them? I'm not talking about managing reviews, but automation tools that look ...

Suppose you're working on an enterprise project in which you have to get management signoff in order for you to develop a new feature set. Usually your management has no problem signing off o...

We have a large backlog of things we should do in our software, in a lot of different categories, for example: New problem areas for our products to solve New functionality supporting exis...