#requirements
12 articles
- A Letter to Future Me: The Assignment I Sealed & Reopened This Year
The exercise asked for six SMART goals. My letter has the congratulations, and where the goals should be it says 'pppp'. I opened it to find out why.
- Mount Everest: A Case Study in Deference & the Decision Nobody Stopped
Both expedition leaders talked constantly about a turnaround time. Neither ever named one. A rule with no threshold in it cannot be broken, so nobody broke it.
- Conscious Capitalism as an Acceptance Criterion: Reading the Deck Skeptically
Conscious capitalism sounds unobjectionable until you ask what would count as failing it. Rewriting it as acceptance criteria is how I read a values deck now.
- The Pew Question I Found in Roper's Archive
A workshop had me pick a construct, then sent me into three survey archives. I found the keywords everywhere and the construct nowhere.
- How Not to Suck as a Manager: The Case Packet & the Self-Check That Cannot Fail
A case study tells two bad-manager stories from the employee's chair. Part C turns the chair around, with a self-check that cannot come out clean.
- Criterion A: The Trauma Definition I Defended & the Clause Written to Exclude It
I argued trauma should stay objectively defined. The revision I praised for being tighter was written specifically to exclude losses like mine.
- The QA Manager, Part IV: Rating the Raters — and Who Never Got a Vote
Designing a QA Manager appraisal showed me that a rating system is a value statement before it is a measurement tool.
- The QA Manager, Part III: The Satisfaction Survey I Built — and Every Way It Could Mislead Me
I built a six-question satisfaction survey for a QA manager role, then audited every way my own instrument could mislead me.
- Catching False Passes in a QA Selection Plan
I designed a QA selection funnel with validity coefficients and cutoff scores, then found the statistical error and bias I had built in.
- Shipping Defects in a QA Manager Job Description
Writing a QA Manager job description taught me that job posts and software requirements fail the same way: unclear specs ship defects.
- Can articles be password protected?
An experiment in keeping some writing private.
- Launching surojito.com: Setup Log & Honest Audit
Publishing a personal site taught me that every blocked step is just a negotiation — with a tool, a credential, or a UI that wasn't designed with you in mind.