Chapter 4. The Software Team

 

Computer programming is a human activity.

 
 --Gerald Weinberg [1971]

Key Points

  • Effective requirements management can be accomplished only by an effective software team.

  • Requirements management touches every team member, albeit in different ways.

  • Effective requirements management requires mastering six team skills.

Individuals choose software development as their career domain for a variety of reasons. Some read Popular Science and Wired as kids, gravitated to the programming courses available in high school, majored in engineering or computer science in college, and thereby directed their lives down this specific technical path. For others, it was serendipity; finding themselves at a place in space and time when the need ...

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