Generating Charters

Your explorations yield information, but unless your stakeholders value that information and use it to move the project forward, you’re wasting your time. To ensure the information you find has value, you need to work closely with your stakeholders to identify and frame charters targeted at answering the most valuable questions about the software.

This section examines some of the sources that inspire your charters.

Requirements

Requirements discussions are an ideal time to start drafting charters. Let’s see how this works by eavesdropping on a conversation between Alex, a tester; Pat, a programmer; and Binh, a business analyst. They’re discussing the feature that allows users to update their profile information. ...

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