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The idea of requirement patterns is to provide guidance…

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Many types of requirements crop up again and again, no matter what a particular new system is for. The idea of requirement patterns is to provide guidance on how to specify common types of requirements, to make it quicker and easier to write them, and to improve the quality of those requirements. A requirement pattern is applied at the level of an individual requirement: to explain how to write a requirement of that type.
A requirement pattern can also suggest additional topics for which to write requirements.Read more at www.withallyourequire.com
 

Ideas, Images, Words

Really interesting description of how images and words describe ideas.

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Wang Bi, a third-century Chinese scholar, has this to say in “General Remarks on the Changes of the Zhou”:

Images are the means to express ideas. Words are the means to explain the images. To yield up ideas completely, there is nothing better than images, and to yield up the meaning of images, there is nothing better than words.
In other words, he suggests that to capture ideas from the problem space, we need both imaging tools and descriptive tools.Read more at www.ddj.com
 

Requirement Patterns - Guidance vs. Imposition

I was looking for additional resources on requirement patterns and came across this. The definition is pretty standard, but I especially like the part about the tension between imposition and freedome to innovate.

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Patterns help you have solutions ready for repeatable problems. How many times has it happened that you came across a seemingly similar problem but could not recollect what you did to solve it! Patterns are nothing but a documentation of these, that you can refer to solve these repeatable problems. There is a lot of angst against patterns since they seem to impose rather than give space for innovation. There is a reason why patterns are not standards, because it is quite possible that they apply in most of the cases, not all. Patterns should be used as guidelines, not as a must-comply-with standard.

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