Welcome to Requirements.net 2.0.
Requirements.net is the industry’s largest consortium for the empowerment of the business analyst, and we are very pleased to welcome our new membership board, and introduce several new initiatives for the coming year.

Below is the press release from today:

Requirements.net Consortium doubles membership, unveils new best practices offerings for requirements professionals

Industry Leading Consortium Serving Over 15,000 Requirements Professionals Will Release Requirements Definition Knowledge Archive In Late 2009

Toronto, ON — April 15, 2009: The Requirements.net consortium, the largest consortium for business analysts worldwide, today announced that it has doubled its membership, and the combined membership provides unprecedented market reach and leadership in business analyst empowerment. The consortium today also announced that it will make available the Requirements Definition Knowledge Archive (RDKA) to the public, in an effort to further the consortium’s vision of ensuring that all business software requirements are built following a rigorous requirements definition and management process, to meet today’s business needs.

New Members
Requirements.net produces some of the industry’s most respected thought leadership published works on the requirements discipline. Capgemini (Euronext: CAP), Centerline Partners, BA Times, ZAPtechnologies.com and the Requirement Solution Group have now joined the consortium, which was originally founded by Blueprint, HP, RQNG, Orasi Software, SKY IT Group and CorTechs.

“Modern business applications are too complex and too strategic to risk failure,” said David Nyland, CEO of Blueprint. “Stand-alone business applications are transforming to become end-to-end integrated business systems and new technologies (such as SOA, Webservices, AJAX, FLEX, and others) are re-inventing how business application requirements need to be captured, defined, validated, and managed. Like a GPS for application development, the rapidly growing requirements.net consortium helps business analysts ensure that they can navigate and communicate in a clear voice through this rapidly changing landscape.”

“Customers can reduce the risk of failure of business applications by implementing best practices for requirements” said Mark Sarbiewski, senior director of products, Software and Solutions, HP. “The expansion of the consortium will help IT organizations deliver applications that better meet the needs of the business.”

Requirements Definition Knowledge Archive (RDKA)
In addition to the new members, the consortium also announced to day that it will release a collective set of best practice works to the public later this year, in which consortium members contribute specific elements from their practices. The first set of Knowledge Archives will focus on Globalization and Offshoring, and AGILE Development in a Distributed environment. The consortium expects to release these by the end of the year, with more to follow in 2010.”

With advent of new technologies and SDLC methodologies, combined with globalization and the resulting distribution of development teams, the companies behind Requirements.net recognize that the industry is recasting how it approaches the problem of business analysis,” said Charlie Li, Vice President at Capgemini. “The consortium’s goal is to help business analysts ensure that they can communicate in a clear voice through this rapidly changing landscape; they can easily yet rigorously define and manage requirements, so that the end products truly meet the business need both in terms of quality and cost.”

Requirements Lifecycle Awards
The Requirements.net consortium today also announced that it will be launching the Requirements Lifecycle Awards later this year. The first of its kind, these awards will honor top IT implementations that have reduced waste from the focus on requirements optimization.Look for information soon on these awards at www.requirements.net.

About The Requirements.net Consortium
Founded by HP and Blueprint in 2008 and now thirteen members strong, Requirements.net is the industry’s largest consortium for the advancement of Business Analysis empowerment. Through focus on requirements definition, visualization, and management, the companies behind Requirements.net are driven to share and sponsor best practices and technologies to improve industry requirements practices. As prescribed in the Requirements.net charter, the call for members is opened only once a year, between January and March.