yoursurrogategod Posted November 20, 2012 Share Posted November 20, 2012 Hi, I'm going to be writing a new application with Zend/PHP. One of the requirements is that we have an SRS. I've never done an SRS for a web app. I'm curious what others have done and what has worked (or not) for you guys. Thoughts? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Posted November 20, 2012 Share Posted November 20, 2012 Sounds to me like the kind of document the BA and SA should be putting together. I would ask why, as the developer, you are being asked to specify what the business requirements of a product you're about to implement are. You should be given a specification. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoursurrogategod Posted November 20, 2012 Author Share Posted November 20, 2012 Sounds to me like the kind of document the BA and SA should be putting together. I would ask why, as the developer, you are being asked to specify what the business requirements of a product you're about to implement are. You should be given a specification. This is why I'm updating my resume and sending it out . Basically, we have no documentation for our "applications" (most of them are held together with duct-tape and elmers glue, sometimes if we get fancy, we'll use an actual steel nail!), we don't have a development process and upper-management has recently decreed that "we're not a software development shop" (I found this after I've been working here for 6+ months, my jaw never was never more agape as that moment). Now, middle-management has decreed that we need a spec now. I have experience writing specifications for state-based (desktop apps) programs, but was wondering whether there is any difference between that and web-development. By the way, what are BA and SA? Also, do you know of organizations that have such processes that you speak about? That, honestly, I find to be interesting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Posted November 20, 2012 Share Posted November 20, 2012 Sorry, BA is Business Analyst and SA is Solutions Architect. Between the two, and perhaps more, they should provide all the business, functional and technical requirements of the product. Obviously not every company has those roles, or even a need for them, but what you've been asked to do sounds a lot like someone else's job. What information, requirements, etc. were you given? Oh an yeah. The company I work for has 4 scrums. In each scrum there's a product owner, BA, SA, scrum master, designer, devOps engineer, test engineer, and then about five developers. Means everyone can concentrate on what they get paid for. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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