The Importance of a Usage-Centric Approach

Karl Wiegers, principal consultant with Process Impact and author of 13 books, spoke with host Gavin Henry about common problems including technical debt; staff scaling; iron triangles; changes over the past 50 years; requirements elicitation with use cases; design iteration and abstraction; prototyping; modeling; project management; negotiating around constraints; product scopes; schedules, budgets, and staffing; product quality; teamwork and culture; defining quality; process improvement; and self-learning. This discussion was about some of the topics that I address in Software Development Pearls. This article provide summary excerpts; to hear the full interview, visit http://www.se-radio.net or access our archives via RSS at http://feeds.feedburner.com/se-radio. Robert Blumen