{"id":56,"date":"2003-10-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.simple-talk.com\/uncategorized\/take-emotion-out-of-software-purchasing-decisions\/"},"modified":"2021-05-11T15:57:48","modified_gmt":"2021-05-11T15:57:48","slug":"take-emotion-out-of-software-purchasing-decisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/databases\/sql-server\/tools-sql-server\/take-emotion-out-of-software-purchasing-decisions\/","title":{"rendered":"Take emotion out of software purchasing decisions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If your IT team runs up against rancor and indecision each time a purchase decision needs to be made, a requirements analysis can help you provide your boss with the documentation and consensus necessary to choose the right software development product in a timely manner. <\/p>\n<p>Purchasing a software development product that different users will utilize in different ways is one of the trickiest tasks IT shops face. When selecting a tool such as a bug-tracking system, for example, one must resolve the requirements of four different groups: developers, testers, project managers, and senior managers. Attempting to satisfy all these groups during a buying decision often results in emotional turf wars and lengthy deliberations. <\/p>\n<p>The full article can be viewed at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.devx.com\/enterprise\/article\/17541\">http:\/\/www.devx.com\/enterprise\/article\/17541<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you find indecision each time a purchase decision needs to be made, a requirements analysis can help you provide your boss with information to choose the right software development product.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":184961,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[143532],"tags":[4223,4222,4224,4150,4213],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tools-sql-server","tag-purchase","tag-requirements-analysis","tag-software","tag-sql","tag-sql-tools"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/184961"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20773,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions\/20773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}