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Outsourcing and requirement specification

Plan

Day 1- Outsourcing

Day 2 – Agile requirements

Day 3 – Unified Process and user stories

Day 4 – Prototyping and Spikes

Day 5 – Study point exercises

Learning objectives

• Be able to specify and outsource a part of a project
• Be able to write requirements specification and acceptance test as part of product quality assurance
• Be able to prepare, create and test experimental prototypes/functional spikes

Business competencies

• Be able to participate in outsourcing
• Be able to participate in business modelling and requirement specification

Exercises

Resources

Outsourcing:

Arthur F. Rothberg: Outsourcing Benefits: Seven Ways They Help Grow SmallCompanies http://www.cfoedge.com/resources/articles/cfo-edge-outsourcing-benefits-and-growing-small-companies.pdf

#### Michael F. Corbett: The Outsourcing Revolution https://www.economist.com/media/globalexecutive/outsourcing_revolution_e_02.pdf

Videos:

1. (5 min - "ABC company") Outsourcing: Is it good or bad? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qeehDLYa8g&feature=youtu.be
2. (4 min - "pep talk + counselling conversation"Outsourcing Your Graphic Design [Small Business Tutorial]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ujEtAsR1t8&feature=youtu.be
3. (4 stk ca. 7-8 min - Tyrone Shum/outsourcinglive) Benefits Of Outsourcing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4dWB3Q6j0Q
4. The 5 Secrets With Outsourcing Software And IT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEtBVTXHv3E
5. Pros and Cons of Outsourcing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90a2qHYqMoU
6. The Truth About Outsourcing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7LHOUs7KLo

Agile requirement specification

Slides: https://efif.sharepoint.com/sites/cph/Lyngby/_layouts/15/guestaccess.aspx?docid=01afbd81adb4e42ac9a3aad4a494e16f5&authkey=AWsusFemkx5acTrC47kQPrY&e=10301a65120a461ab7b544ea10cd2d6f

Leffingwell - Agile software requirements

• chap. 3: AGILE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE TEAM
• chap. 6: USER STORIES (skip spikes)
• chap. 10: ACCEPTANCE TESTING (skip Unit and Component Testing)

Elisabeth Hendrickson: Driving Development with Tests ATTD and TDD: http://testobsessed.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/atddexample.pdf

Agile Requirements Modelling: http://www.agilemodeling.com/essays/agileRequirements.htm#ATDD

Videos:

1. Explaining Agile - Martin Fowler and Neil Ford at USI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GE6lbPLEAzc
2. Agile Product Ownership in a nutshell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=502ILHjX9EE
3. Product Backlog Grooming Meeting: http://scrumtrainingseries.com/

Unified Process and use cases

Ambler: A Manager’s Introduction to RUP http://www.ambysoft.com/downloads/managersIntroToRUP.pdf

Leffingwell: chap 19: use cases

Prototyping and spikes

C. Floyd - A systematic look on prototyping

Leffingwell- chap. 6: USER STORIES (spikes)