Christmas with the gurus

  • December 21, 2004
Requirements guru shares 'cosmic truths'
Requirements are the foundation of every software development project. Good, bad, or ugly, everything gets built on them. Karl E. Wiegers believes that developers can put a little rebar in that foundation by recognizing a set of nearly universal requirements principles he calls "cosmic truths."
Methodology guru applies agile principles to project management
"The core values and principles of agile development are modified a little bit for project management," Highsmith told attendees at the Better Software conference. "But the fundamentals do apply." 		Guru says Web services security in developers' hands
Our favorite security guru, Gary McGraw, has said it so often that it's almost a cliche: If you want secure systems, you've got to build security into the applications that run on them.


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