Why do almost 80 percent of e-commerce and other software development projects undertaken in the U.S. fail to be completed on time, or within budget, or to function as anticipated? What is the biggest ...

Purpose: This article studies and determines the benefits for technical communicators using narrative to compose and edit software requirements specifications. Specifically, this article is an ...

Hugh Cumming had his work cut out for him. The gap between what his not-yet-implemented call center management application at a large European company could do and the requirements list created by 40 ...

This module covers software requirement analysis, architecture and system design, quality assurance and testing, and project management in the Cloud-based software development life cycle. This Part-A ...

Gathering requirements is simple: just ask the users what they want. However, experience shows this fails dismally. In this article, we look at why gathering requirements is so hard, and what can be ...

Systems that are designed to “just work” for the end user (with the ability to install and run generic off-the-shelf operating systems out-of-the-box) need to follow a set of minimum hardware and ...

Means-plus-function claiming has been disfavored (by and large) since at least 1994 when the Federal Circuit handed down its decision in In re Donaldson, where the Federal Circuit sitting en banc ...