{"id":1908,"date":"2015-04-13T01:02:35","date_gmt":"2015-04-13T06:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=1908"},"modified":"2015-03-23T08:09:17","modified_gmt":"2015-03-23T13:09:17","slug":"last-in-first-out-requirements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2015\/04\/last-in-first-out-requirements\/","title":{"rendered":"Last-In, First-Out Requirements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p><strong>I review a requirements-management scheme that indicates no requirements management.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I once worked in an organization that built systems. Everyone worked very hard and very long hours. There was one problem:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We never delivered a single system<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Why not? The problem was with managing requirements. Each month we held a requirements meeting. Someone would state a requirement for a new system. That new system was more important than any system ever requested. Hence, work on all other systems must cease, and all resources must go towards the new requirement.<\/p>\n<p>This was a simple scheme:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The last requirement stated was to be implemented first.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ah, nothing ever finished. The entire situation was a failure to manage the requirements. No one wanted to <strong>decide<\/strong> what requirement was truly the most important and hence should be implemented first. Decisions implied <strong>thought<\/strong> and <strong>responsibility<\/strong>. Yikes. We didn&#8217;t want any of that.<\/p>\n<p>People were given awards for stating important requirements. People were given awards for working hard on building systems. No one ever delivered anything; no one ever accomplished anything. Appearance of effort and intention was everything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips I review a requirements-management scheme that indicates no requirements management. I once worked in an organization that built systems. Everyone worked very hard and very long hours. There was one problem: We never delivered a single system Why not? The problem was with managing requirements. Each month we held a requirements meeting. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,59,58],"tags":[132,179,178],"class_list":["post-1908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-management","category-requirements","category-systems","tag-management","tag-requirements","tag-systems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1909,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1908\/revisions\/1909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}