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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 […]

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We are concluding our Requirements.net consortium series entitled “The Economy and the Business Analyst” with a summary of the assets available for download.     The Requirements.net consortium is a collection of company’s supporting the industry trend toward IT efficiency through Business Analyst empowerment.  Members of the requirements.net consortium include RQNG (www.requirementsnetwork.com), HP Software (www.hp.com), Blueprint […]

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Analyst firm voke has just launched a new survey looking at how IT project teams are being impacted by the economic environment. 
With the recent voke research report entitled “Fortune 500 Spending to reduce IT Costs” (and corresponding Podcast interview from r.net) on how Business Analysis is a critical to IT spending, this is one […]

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The series “The Economy and Business Analysis continues with a special Podcast interview with Steven Davis.  
In this episode, Steven Davis, the “Grandfather of Requirements” is our special guest. Steven has a 20 year history in the software development and requirements arena, and spent time on the team that created the Industry’s first requirements […]

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Welcome to the refreshed Requirements.net.   Please pardon any dust as our renovations settle.
Things haven’t been quite the same this year, have they?    Lots of discussion of “strategic cuts” and the maximization of resources fill the online discussion threads.    We have seen landmark companies (Lehman Brothers, Ford, General Motors, Circuit City…to name a few) […]

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Jonathan Babcock has written an interesting article about the factors behind selecting Agile or Classic PM/BA methodologies.   His article includes a chart which compares the two methodologies in a two-by-two matrix which looks at the type of organization contrasted against the top of projects and which methodology makes the most sense.
An excerpt from the conclusion:

 Obviously, […]

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Risk-based quality management is a new approach to risk mitigation in the end-to-end quality effort which has a critical linkage to requirements and requirements traceability.
In developing requirements, you have to consider both the business and the IT risk of implementing new capabilities. The notion of being able to capture both dimensions of risk, by […]

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I’ve had a desire to write a Facebook application for a while, but really lacked a fun idea to get myself going.
Luckily, such an idea manifested itself one day, while I devoured all-you-can-eat sushi with my best friend Kevin.
As we neared the end of our maki masterpieces, I was coming dangerously close to exceeding my […]

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The role of product and project manager has never been as important as it is today, and it’s likely the importance will increase. The challenge to do “more with less” has been the standing order for many years. However, it’s particularly acute in today’s environment with economic pressures, global competition, technical advances and customer demands. […]

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Jonathan Babcock has posted a very interesting blog entry on the “precision” problem in the requirements definition process. Jonathan draws an interesting distinction between “accurate” requirements vs. “precise” requirements.
To quote his post:
Natural language is inherently ambiguous
The odds are stacked against the BA when it comes to writing requirements that are both accurate […]

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