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Lets hurry and get to QA so we can get our Requirements...:(

I was chatting with a buddy last week and he told me that during a recent meeting, one of the consultants he was working made this statement. 'We need to hurry up and get to QA so we can get the requirements for this release'. If that one sentence does not speak volumes, I don't know what does.

When you get requirements during the 'QA cycle' (this shop is standard waterfall) does that make the QA cycle the elaboration phase? or the QA phase?

I still have a smile on my face 2 days after hearing this one. :)

Published Jul 18 2007, 08:15 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Humor, WPF

Comments

expresso said:

What did you say?

Uh, that's why a mostly do NOT like working with consultants and why a lot of them get a bad rap. I've worked with good consultants also. So I hope everyone in the room looked at him like he is a moron?

Or better, ready to get rid of him?

# July 18, 2007 9:25 AM

Derik Whittaker said:

In this case it is not the consultants, it is just the way the business works. :(

# July 18, 2007 9:36 AM

Christopher Bennage said:

"We all know that the requirements flow once the users have something in front of them."

I heard that one in a session on requirements gathering/documentation from a shop employing a traditional approach. I smiled for a couple of days after too.

# July 18, 2007 11:14 AM

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About Derik Whittaker

Derik is a .Net Developer/Architect specializing in WinForms working out the northern suburbs of Chicago. He is also believer and advocate for Agile development including SCRUM, TDD, CI, etc.

When Derik is not writing code he can be found spending time with his wife and young son, climbing on his bouldering wall, watching sports (mostly baseball), and generally vegging out.