Requirements.net is pleased to announce the Call for 2009 Consortium Membership

On behalf of the Requirements.net consortium, we are officially announcing the 2009 member enrollment program. Requirements.net is the industry’s largest consortium for the advancement of Business Analyst empowerment. Founded in 2008, Requirements.net is an organically created forum of companies including RQNG (Requirements Networking Group), HP Software (which produces the industry leading requirements and quality management platform), Blueprint (the leading provider of requirements solutions for software businesss analysts), Orasi Software (the company credited with the invention of Requirements Management as a category), SKY IT Group (a leading provider of solution and educational consulting for HP, IBM, Blueprint and other integration technologies), and CorTechs (a leading provider solution consolting for quality lifecycle implementations for HP Software and Blueprint).

In 2008, the Requirements.net consortium produced some of the industry’s most respected thought leadership published works which included hundreds of BLOG postings, major ground-breaking open IP whitepapers ( including the BA Workbench Buyer’s Guide and Whitepaper, How to Develop Requirements in an AGILE world, the HP Guide to Quality Management, and why Requirements are a top CIO priority). In addition, Requirements.net produces the industry’s most popular requirements podcast (entitled Requirements Unplugged), with over a dozen episodes across two complete seasons. Requirements.net’s podcasts are distributed through Apple’s iTunes and are compatible with the iPod/iPhone music player. In 2008, Requirements.net also hosted a dozen of executive breakfast seminars, with over 150 C-level executives in attendance.

In 2008, Requirements.net also partnered with Voke Inc (www.vokeinc.com) in the creation of the new vokestream BA Market Snapshot, one of the first analyst reports focused on the BA marketspace as a new category. As part of this effort, Requirements.net conducted an industry survey of 100s of business analysts to isolate key industry trends.

Requirements.net has also become one of the most popular web destinations for company’s looking for requirements related best practices and concepts. In 2008, Requirements.net hosted over 7000 downloads of best-practice whitepapers, Podcasts, and analyst reports.

Enrollment for 2009 will be conducted through March 15th, we are accepting only a limited number of new members, and membership must be approved by Requirements.net consortium board. For more information, please email your contact information to Matt.Morgan@requirements.net.