Kathleen McGoey recognized with 2009 Requirements Lifecycle Award

Requirements.net, the industry’s largest consortium for the advancement of Business Analysis empowerment, today announced the winner of the inaugural Requirements Lifecycle Award. Kathleen McGoey, Director of Development Support Services at LexisNexis was honored with the award for her ongoing work in leading significant improvements in her organization’s software requirements practice.

The requirements improvement initiatives led by Kathleen McGoey focus on key client-facing, Web-based applications, back-office applications and other development initiatives. In order to be more responsive to customer needs, LexisNexis is transforming requirements definition and management, and implementing new processes. These include performance of visual requirements simulation for development cycles to ensure that all requirements are clearly understood before costly implementation commences.

McGoey has been able to achieve a commitment for continued improvement and investments in the practice across the company, and LexisNexis is moving toward establishing a center of excellence to continue that work. Specific, ongoing improvements under McGoey’s guidance include:

• Definition and visualization of requirements through simulation, resulting in clearer requirements understanding.
• Creating a single reference for development and test, providing all stakeholders, including the business client, with a single location to find the requirements information they need.
• Standardizing project frameworks and roadmaps, allowing stakeholders to see historical, current, and planned work and quickly drill-down into the detailed requirements for any of it.

LexisNexis’ requirements process improvements are delivering significant business value, helping to build applications that are aligned with business and customer needs, and reducing costly rework cycles.

“We commend Kathleen on her remarkable continued work at LexisNexis to truly change the way requirements are defined, visualized and articulated throughout the organization,” said Andy Simon, Partner at Centerline Partners, and spokesperson for Requirements.net. “She is a great example for others, showcasing how organizations can work to significantly improve their requirements process and thereby drive better communication, understanding and efficiency among all stakeholders in the business.”

For more detailed information watch a video interview of Kate McGoey of LexisNexis.

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