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Microsoft Azure Developer: Aligning Functional and Non-functional Requirements

Effective and relevant across many software development methodologies, defining functional and non-functional requirements can help you get clear on exactly what you need to build in an application or system, and what qualities you expect from it.

Simon Allardice - Pluralsight course - Microsoft Azure Developer: Aligning Functional and Non-functional Requirements
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What you'll learn

To plan, build and ship a successful system or application, you need to first get clear on exactly what you need the system to do, and what qualities you expect from it. In this course, Microsoft Azure Developer: Aligning Functional and Non-functional Requirements, you will learn foundational knowledge to discover, write, and refine your functional and non-functional requirements. First, you will see how to extract requirements from larger business ideas, and why the distinction between functional and non-functional is important. Next, you will explore ways to discover unspoken assumptions, and integrate these ideas in user stories and acceptance criteria. Finally, you will work on estimating the effort in your tasks, and how to make sure your own efforts are testable and measurable. When you’re finished with this course, you will have the skills and knowledge needed to take vague business goals and break them into clear, achievable tasks.

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Simon Allardice - Pluralsight course - Microsoft Azure Developer: Aligning Functional and Non-functional Requirements
Simon Allardice

With over three decades of software development experience, Simon has programmed in every discipline: from finance to transportation, nuclear reactors to game development. His first video course released back in 2002: since then, his popular courses have been viewed by hundreds of thousands of developers. Simon obsesses on making complicated subjects accessible, memorable, and easier to learn.

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