| Publication |
Description |
7/2006 |
"Hallucinating Requirements" is Senior Consultant Sam Bayer's latest article for the Cutter Consortium IT Journal (Vol.19, No.7).
In it, Sam discusses using customer focus groups (CFGs) to learn requirements, with some surprising results. Real business needs were uncovered not by extensive requirements definition before the event, but by first demonstrating a prototype and then working with the CFG to collect requirements.
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 3/2004 |
This Cutter Consortium Executive Report (Vol.5, No.2) published by the e-Project Management Advisory Service is entitled "Practicing Agile Requirements Management ".
From the report cover:
"Several studies indicate that the major causes of project failure usually relate to requirements. In this Executive Report, learn how a handful of companies strive to ensure the accuracy of what their customers truly desire."
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 4/2002 |
Vic Tolomei and Sam Bayer co-authored Chapter 41
in this book entitled "The role of Functional Metrics in
B2B eCommerce Project Success". It is a description
of their efforts, and results, over a 3 year period to introduce
a rational measurement process into Haht Commerce's Services and
Product Management organizations. Click on the cover of the book
and to go to Amazon's website where you can learn more about the
book and order a copy. |
4/2001 |
This Cutter Consortium Executive Report (Vol.2, No.4)
published by the e-Project Management Advisory Service is entitled
"Customer Focused Development: The Art and Science of Conversing
with Customers".
Almost all of Sam's wisdom concerning the why and how of inserting
customer focus groups into your product development and management
processes is discussed in this report. |
6/1994 |
This American Programmer article entitled RADical
Software Development was the capstone of several years of intense
collaboration between Jim Highsmith and Sam Bayer. It also
provided early documentation for the fundamental concepts and techniques
that remain central to their work to this day.
Jim has gone on to write several award-winning books on the subject.
His writings continue to be important contributions to the Agile
Development body of knowledge.
Click on the image of our paper to go to Jim’s site and read the
article in its entirety. While you're there, be sure to browse
his other publications. |
If you are interested in copies of these materials, please send your
request to Sam Bayer.
