Last week's editorial, "Are You Passing The Requirements Buck?" sparked a lot of controversy in the Agile Modeling (AM) community. This week DevX gives the floor to Scott Ambler for a rebuttal. Find out what the Agile Modeling method really teaches.
by Scott W. Ambler
April 8, 2003
n April 2, 2003 Lori Piquet, DevX's Editor-In-Chief, wrote an editorial titled "Are You Passing The Requirements Buck?." The editorial discussed both a presentation that I had given for the Computer History Museum at Parc Research Center in Palo Alto California on Thursday, March 27 2003 and a portion of my writings regarding agile requirements at the Agile Modeling (AM) site. Several people concerned with what Lori had written brought the editorial to my attention. I read the piece, which in both my opinion and that of others, gravely misrepresented views which I have held and written about for years. Lori and I began communicating via email, the bulk of it is posted in the DevX discussion forum and at my page, during which she offered me the opportunity to clarify how requirements really work on an agile project. So here we are.
Project Stakeholders
Let's start by discussing the concept of project stakeholders. My definition of a project stakeholder is anyone who is a direct user, indirect user, manager of users, senior manager, operations staff member, support (help desk) staff member, developers working on other systems that integrate or interact with the one under development, or maintenance professionals potentially affected by the development and/or deployment of a software project.
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Scott W. Ambler is a software process improvement (SPI) consultant. He
has authored or co-authored several books, including 'Refactoring Databases'
and 'The Object Primer.' He can be reached at his Web site at www.ambysoft.com.
n April 2, 2003 Lori Piquet, DevX's Editor-In-Chief, wrote an editorial titled "
