Re: [AFFUG Discuss] Future Topics

[Darrell Ross]

DK (and John): The Requirements Gathering topic is an excellent idea.  I "think" that we could have a healthy discussion regarding how a team decomposes wireframes and UI comps into user stories, and then break the stories into tasks.  Capping off the discussion could be a discussion for how one estimates Flex dev tasks.  We have developed some processes for this within Enablus and can share some ideas.  We would be interested to hear how other teams tackle this issue on their projects. I am keen to see if iRise can solve some of the requirements gathering issues.  However, two caveats........(1) From what I've heard, iRise is ungodly expensive (ten of thousands of $$ for an enterprise license), which knocks it out of the realm of most people attending AFFUG.  I think attendees would want to know pricing.  (2) Whoever presents on it needs to have practical, in-the-trenches experience using the tool for Flex RIAs.  When I last looked at it, iRise was great for Web 1.0 or forms-based apps - not sure if how it would help the specification for animations, transitions, and other Flex goodness. Thanks, Darrell Ross Partner Enablus  |  30000 Mill Creek Ave, Suite 425, Alpharetta, GA  30022 T: (404) 492-8115  |   F: (866) 434-3596  |  C: (404) 392-6592 http://www.enablus.com The information transmitted (including any attachments) is intended for the person or entity to which it is addressed and contains confidential and/or privileged material. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, you are hereby notified that any use, review, re-transmission, distribution, reproduction or any action taken in reliance upon this message is prohibited by law. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. On Jan 23, 2009, at 1:49 PM, Douglas Knudsen wrote: Seeing a couple posts today, thought I'd put this out there: Two possible future topics at meetings I'm thinking of are 1) Documentation - The What, How, When, Best Practices, and Standards for documenting your Flex code including how to generate ASDoc output for your team and/or client. 2) Requirements Gathering - Someone from http://www.onespring.net/ where they use a tool called iRise, http://irise.com, to gather requirements has contacted me about speaking to requirements gathering, IA, and such.  She is real interested in the RIA space and is willing to present to our group. IA, Information Architecture, is quite important in RIA and is one driver for UX design. Your thoughts?  Please, let us know here.  Certainly if you'd rather a private response, reply to me or any board member personally. Cheers! Douglas Knudsen http://www.cubicleman.com this is my signature, like it?