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For professionals who think before they build.
From idea to spec - Product Definition, Requirements Engineering, Backlog Planning, and the structured practices that separate professional teams from everyone else.
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Friday, April 10, 2026
SDD tools like GitHub Spec Kit and AWS Kiro solve a real problem. But every one of them starts with a spec already in hand - and nobody asks how it got there.
Michael
Requirements EngineeringIntermediate8 min read
Sunday, March 29, 2026
Teams keep trying to fix their backlogs with better grooming, stricter templates, and more Jira fields. It never works — because the problem isn't in the backlog.
Sarah
Requirements EngineeringIntermediate7 min read
Wednesday, April 1, 2026
Jonas
Behavior-Driven DevelopmentBeginner8 min read
BDD is a thinking tool. The tests are optional.
Most BDD rollouts fail the same way: someone installs Cucumber before anyone understands why. The core of BDD isn't a framework, it's a sentence. Write the scenario before you write the code. Everything else is optional scaffolding.