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The Differences between User Stories and Software Requirements Specification (SRS) – Interview with Per Lundholm

This is the fourth post in the series in which I have interviewed several Agile experts to reveal the differences between user stories and software requirements and their application to regulated systems (i.e., health IT systems). You can find the previous post in this series here. Today’s interviewee is Per Lundholm, a professional developer since 1980. He

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The Differences between User Stories and Software Requirements Specification (SRS) – Interview with Ron Jeffries

As mentioned in our post The Difference between User Stories and Software Requirements Specification (SRS), we decided to interview some Agile experts on this topic in order to reveal some confusion that may be occurring in the industry. This will be a series of interviews, with one interview presented in each blog post. The interviewee

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Electronic Health Records Can Kill!

Technology is playing a vital role in our lives. It is reaching into every field – even the critical ones, the ones on which our lives depend. Take healthcare for instance. By June 2014, funding for digital healthcare technology companies reached $2.3 billion, exceeding the entire total of 2013. At the top of the list of

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5 Things I Learned from the MidAmerica Healthcare Venture Forum 2015 (for Fitting into the Marketplace)

Continuing the lessons (you can find them here and here) I learned from the MidAmerica Healthcare Venture Forum (MHVF), in this post I will be focusing on fitting into the marketplace. How do you affect the organization that you are calling on? Let’s assume hospitals – what is your talk track with the CEO, the

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4 Takeaways from the MidAmerica Healthcare Venture Forum 2015 (for Innovators and Entrepreneurs)

What a great two-day conference in Chicago – the MidAmerica Healthcare Venture Forum (MHVF) hosted by MedCity News and Mid-America Healthcare Investors Network.  The combination of angel investors, venture capitalists, healthcare information technology specialists, and biotech and medical-device organizations was truly inspiring. One could sit and hear all the different perspectives on each topic presented.  Some

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