Monthly Archives: June 2012

Story: Using the Patterns of Myths and Legends to Build Better Systems

Posted by Les Chambers on June 18, 2012
Project Management, Requirements, Story / Comments Off on Story: Using the Patterns of Myths and Legends to Build Better Systems

The current fashion of eliciting software requirements by collecting user stories is pathetically superficial. The educated use of stories has a much deeper purpose in systems engineering, and that is to reveal the fundamental principles that drive successful systems development. The story patterns of myth and legend hold eternal wisdom known since the fall of man into the field of time. Projecting these patterns onto technology projects leads to more insightful decision making in every aspect of complex systems development. Continue reading…