Re: Re: Re: Writing a web message board from scratch

[mAsterdam]

Tomazos:

What do you call this brain-storming procedure?
Is there an official name for this area of knowledge?
Are there books and/or web sites about this sort of thing?

Just some keywords (& authors):

• Try story telling to elicit typical user/system interactions, i.e. use cases from your users.
• Find out about the important classes and their interdependencies:
  • Organize sessions with CRC cards: Class Responsibility Collaboration and
  • Do lexical analysis on business documents
• Prioritize requirements / use cases in a group with MoSCoW-rules: Must / Should have / Could have / Won't have this time around
• Schedule features / use cases in timeboxes

  Authors:

  • Ivar Jacobson
  • Martin Fowler (Very readable and small book: UML Distilled)
  • DSDM

  HTH