London: Beyond the User Requirement (Wednesday 23 March)
Speaker: Ian F Alexander
Beyond the User Requirement - how to use scenarios to get beyond the functional requirements to what really needs to be developed, using the example of a tube train’s Auto-Driver Box.
Is it really enough just to write User Requirements and to throw them over the wall to the developers? It doesn’t sound likely to work. Rather than arguing in vague terms, in this talk Ian will describe what actually happened on a project, and how a set of simple practical techniques discovered a series of ‘requirements’ of very different kinds.
The project was to develop a replacement control box for a train. It turned out to be a very different kind of problem from the simple like-for-like replacement that some people imagined.
Prize draw: Ian will be sponsoring the event by providing a copy of his book Scenarios, Stories, Use Cases for a prize draw.
RSVP: To reserve your place, email: events@ukupa.org.uk with your name, stating whether you are a UPA member
Venue: Microsoft London, MSN, Microsoft House, 10 Great Pulteney Street, London W1R 3DG
Date: Wednesday 23 March
Start Time: 6.30pm for 6.45pm. Event followed by drinks and networking at 8:00
Cost: FREE for UPA members; £10 for Non UPA members (£5 for students)
About Ian Alexander
Ian Alexander is an independent consultant, trainer, author and researcher specialising in Requirements Engineering. His publications include Writing Better Requirements, Addison-Wesley 2002, and Scenarios, Stories, Use Cases, John Wiley 2004. Find out more from www.scenarioplus.org.uk.