The Speclr Blog
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.
Friday, April 10, 2026
Michael
Requirements EngineeringIntermediate8 min read
Spec-driven development starts one step too late
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.
Sunday, March 29, 2026
Sarah
Requirements EngineeringIntermediate7 min read
Why backlogs fail before the first sprint
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.