Congratulations Kate McGoey of LexisNexis
Winner of the inaugural Requirements Lifecycle Award

The Requirements.net consortium is pleased to announce that the inaugural Requirements Lifecycle Award has been presented to Kate McGoey, Director of Development Support Services at LexisNexis.

Kate was the inspiration and catalyst for LexisNexis transforming their requirements practice from "handling small maintenance-type enhancements to existing products", to "big new concepts, big new platforms, and big new architecture."

Given the problem of taking Business Analysis "from zero to 60" Kate rallied champions in each core area, surveyed and gathered data from the trenches to make the business case and secure executive support, enlisted expert external mentoring for process improvement and targeted skills enhancement, and performed tradeoff analysis to select the most appropriate toolset.

Now in the midst of rolling out the new requirements solution, the results are proving that Kate got it right. Be sure to watch the interview for a more in-depth description on how LexisNexis evolved their Requirements Lifecycle.

Watch the Video Interview of Kathleen McGoey.

"Your change efforts have to show why the change will benefit those who have to go through the pain of changing. It's not about having one leader, its about having a team of people who can champion the effort and help people get through the normal pain that comes with any significant organizational change"

"It definitely improved the quality of our analysis. We found a lot of scenarios that were missing were suddenly identified, and there's a lot more collaboration between the teams."

"People can now view the requirements of other people's projects, look for best practices, see how people did it on that project so they can replicate it. People have started using shared components. They've started exploring others' libraries to see if they could pull and reuse, which has been terrific."

Toolsets Used: Blueprint Requirements Center and HP Quality Center