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C. Scyphers

Requirements Are Essential; Requirements Are Pointless

Every project (software or otherwise) needs to have requirements, right? That's been drilled into every one us since time immortal. But there are serious issues with the way we capture requirements and try to turn them into useful products. Namely, epistemology (I always knew that Philosophy degree would come in handy some day)...

About C. Scyphers:

Mr. Scyphers is an enterprise architect with over 17 years of experience. Some of his past successes include a complete enterprise website for the US Department of State (collecting ~2T per month of textual and binary data), a real time ODS for Comcast Cable and a long stint at Oracle.