Needs Versus Wants Versus Needs

Requirements professionals, who help shape the products are trained to: "Focus on needs, not on wants."

Sales professionals, who sell the products, are trained to: "Sell on wants, not on needs."

There seems to be a disconnect here somewhere.

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When (Not If) Robots Take Over

We'll know the robots are taking over when CAPTCHAs begin to look like this.

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Another Root of Evil

Premature allocation of requirements is the root of many system architecture evils.

(With a hat tip to Donald Knuth, who coined: "Premature optimization is the root of all evil.")

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