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Consolodation in the RM Software space?
SteelTrace is targeted as a likely takeover candidate in this post from the Computer Business Review online. Borland (CaliberRM) and Teleologic (DOORS) are the most likely suitors identified in the...
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Communicating a delivery schedule with use cases
Use cases are a great tool for establishing the scope of a project. They provide a framework for defining what needs to be implemented (if it doesn’t support a use case, we don’t need to implement...
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Managing requirements conversations
In Documents vs. Conversations, on the Pyre blog, Greg Wilson does that thing that we so rarely do – he takes a step back, and thinks from an entirely different perspective about managing...
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Requirements Document Proliferation
Too many companies don’t document their requirements. Worse still, too many companies over-document their requirements. Roger Cauvin and Cote’ have started a great conversation about the proliferation...
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iRise – software prototyping tool
We received a comment from Tom Humbarger at iRise on an earlier post, which led us to take a look at their site. iRise provides a tool for rapid prototyping of web-based applications, and there’s an...
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Requirements Management Software Will Not Solve the Problem
Requirements management software will not solve our requirements problems. Jerry Aubin of Seilevel made this great point in his presentation this evening at the IEEE Computer Society, Austin / A-SPIN...
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Persona Grata
Different people approach the same goal very differently. When we don’t truly identify our users, we end up with software that dehumanizes, waters-down, and otherwise fails to succeed at anything more...
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Gartner research on Agile Requirements Definition and Management (RDM)
Gartner has a research report available for $95, titled Agile Requirements Definition and Management Will Benefit Application Development (report #G00126310 Apr 2005). The report is 7 pages long and...
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Companies Will Waste $1B This Year on Software Tools
We are collectively flushing the money down the drain. Gartner reported that companies spent $3.7 Billion USD on application development tools in 2004, with a 5% annual growth rate. The Standish Group...
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Building the Case for Requirements Management Tools
Marcus Ting-A-Kee has assembled a great presentation on the value to his company of requirements management tools. In addition to creating the presentation and sharing it with all of us, he shares the...
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2007 – The Year of the Business Analyst
Outsourcing is gaining momentum not only as a way to reduce costs, but as a way to create global teams. This trend is driving an increase in demand for business analysts. The change in perspective is...
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CMMI Levels and Requirements Management Maturity Introduction
Welcome Readers of the Carnival of Enterprise Architecture! We hope you enjoy this series of articles! CMMI (Capability Maturity Model Integration) is a description of the level of enlightenment of a...
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UML Statecharts and Documenting Business Rules
In yesterday’s article we compared use cases and UML statecharts as tools for discovering business rules. James Taylor asked a question about how we would document those rules, and then followed up my...
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Requirements Management Journey – Part 0
Requirements Management – I’m embarking on a journey to help several teams manage their requirements with their existing systems and tools. This is the first in a series of articles, where the rubber...
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