Hi All,

My name is Genefa Murphy and I am the Product Manager for HP’s Requirements Management  solution (part of HP Quality Center)!!!! Whilst this is my introductory entry on the requirements.net blog space – I have already started bogging via HP.com on topics such as:

•  The value of RM
• Wikis for RM
•  Visualization of requirements

I hope you enjoy the blogs I have already posted and I look forward to continue my blogging on requirements.net. All the best Genefa

This week requirements.net delivered a webinar entitled Authoring Requirements in an Agile World.  Watching the registrations leading up to the event it was obvious this was going to be ‘standing room only’ and we were right.  The event was recorded and now available as an ‘On Demand Webinar’.   I’m now happy to announce that a companion whitepaper also entitled Authoring Requirements in an Agile World is now available that elaborates on the content of the webinar.  On the same topic, a podcast featuring Martin Crisp, CTO of Blueprint was also made available earlier this week.  The move to agile, and in particular innovative ways in which requirements play into the agile approach, is clearly on people’s minds – we already have record downloads for these assets.

Stay tuned for more to come.

Download the Whitepaper here

As a companion to our March 3rd executive webinar  entitled “Authoring Requirements in an AGILE world”, the Requirements.net consortium has posted a new Podcast entitled “A Look at AGILE with Martin Crisp, CTO of Blueprint.”    Get it here.

A summary of the Podcast:

Join Matthew Morgan and Keith Barrett on another episode of the Requirements Unplugged podcast. In this installment of the Maximize IT Value podcast series, Matthew Morgan and Keith Barrett host Martin Crisp, Chief Technology Officer at Blueprint. Martin is an 18 year veteran of the software industry whose career spans multiple tenures as CTO and is a published expert in software development and quality assurance.

In our interview, Martin focuses on the benefits and pitfalls of AGILE, and discusses how Business Analysts are even more critical to defining requirements in AGILE projects. Martin discusses how he transformed Blueprint’s research and development organization by deploying AGILE to double the number of releases, improve software quality, all while better aligning with projects with business needs. Our conversation also touches on “Distributed AGILE,” a fast growing subset of AGILE which works with teams distributed across multiple geographies.

Time: 28 minutes

The 2009 Requirements.net executive webinar series continues with “Authoring Requirements in an AGILE World” this Tuesday.

In this special edition webinar, Keith Barrett (host of the Requirements.net Podcast) and Tony Higgins (VP of Products at consortium member Blueprint) discuss how to correctly structure requirements definition efforts in AGILE implementations.

The abstract is as follows:

	“AGILE development is not emerging, its here.  We are doing everything in an iterative and spiral model.    Requirements have transformed into Story Boards which are the anchor to our entire ALM process”  - VP, Fortune 50 ManufacturerJoin the Requirements.net Consortium as we discuss the transformation of IT through an AGILE approach to  definition, development, and testing.  In this special edition webinar, we will look at how organizations can bring the iterative process to requirements story-boards to ensure rapid-revision capability to application changes.  You will learn how auto-generation of quality assets is replacing “manual test plans” to ensure speed in AGILE sprints.

Over 200 registrations — registration is free - register here.

As a reminder, the 2009 Requirements.net Executive Webinar series continues with “Proper Requirements Communication for Offshore Teams” on Thursday, Feb 19th at 2:00PM.

The abstract:

“Our offshore development teams were in-efficient and wasteful, until we embraced a requirements driven ALM process that broke through the communication barrier” – CIO, Fortune 10 Financial

Join Blueprint and HP Software as they discuss how IT organizations can transform their Application Lifecycle Management processes to ensure speed and success with offshore teams.  In this special edition webinar, we will discuss how evolved requirements and quality management are the control points to ensuring project success for distributed organizations.  

In this webinar, you will learn how requirements visualization and up-front validation ensure accuracy of business needs when requirements are conceptualized.  

In addition, we will discuss how to maximize the use of web-based Requirements Management solutions to ensure lifecycle traceability and cycle management.

Finally, we will discuss how risk-based quality management ties ALM processes together to ensure maximum efficiency.

 Over 500 registrations.  You can register here.

This Friday, Keith Barrett and Matthew Morgan are hosting a special guest on the the “Maximizing IT Value” podcast series ….. and Requirements.net readers have the opportunity to participate.

Genefa Murphy from the HP Software product team will be joining us for a recording session on Friday.  For those who have not had a chance to meet or work with Genefa,  she runs the HP Quality Center Requirements Management product group, shaping the roadmap for HP Software’s requirements module.  She has the opportunity to work with HP Software’s Research and Development organization as they solve customer problems through innovative application lifecycle solutions.

How can you  participate?

Simple:  Email us your questions.  Have questions about HP Quality Center’s future direction?  Have questions about how Requirements Management ties in with Quality Assurance?  Ask away.    Also, we will respect your privacy… we will not use your full name, company name, or email address in the podcast.

Please send your emails to Matt.Morgan@requirements.net.

We have posted last Thursday’s “Transform your BA Practice through Iterative Requirements Validation” executive webinar as an on-demand webinar. 

In this special edition Webinar, you will learn how a Fortune 50 organization has put in place an iterative requirements validation process through requirements definition solutions. You will learn how BA’s are the control point to ensure alignment of distributed and global teams

View the webinar below:

As a reminder, on Thursday,  the Requirements.net consortium kicks off our 2009 Executive Webinar series with a presentation from Blueprint and Orasi Software on Iterative Requirements Validation.

The webinar abstract is as follows:

  “Our BA practice has been re-organized, re-tooled, and is now a driving force in our company’s IT project plan”
– Director of BAs, Fortune 50 Retail

Join the Requirements.net consortium as we discuss how today’s economic environment is driving business analysts to transform their approach to requirements definition.  In this special edition webinar, you will learn how a Fortune 50 organization has put in place an iterative requirements validation process through requirements definition solutions.  You will learn how BA’s are the control point to ensure alignment of distributed and global teams.

Time: 2:00PM EST, February 12, 2009

Over 300 people have registered.  You can register here.

The Requirements.net “Maximize IT Value” podcast series continues with an exclusive interview with Brian Cook, CEO of Cook Enterprises Corporation.

Brian is a 20 year business analysis veteran, with a long history of advocating a model-based approach to requirements definition. His experience includes a tenure in the Financial industry, and driving a methodology which was adopted to control costs and ensure project timelines. He has led requirements development for distributed teams, including working with outsourcing providers. He now consults to customers in the Fortune 500 to help bring requirements efficiency to help “maximize IT value.”

Brian also drives the content behind a newly launch internet portal called “Building Requirements Consensus” which is located at http://building-requirements-consensus.com.

This Podcast includes references to many informational sources (at http://building-requirements-consensus.com) and provides some hands-on advise to those struggling to find the balance between use-cases, requirements lists, and international requirements communication.

Download it here.

By far our most popular Podcast.  Ever.In just 40 days, over 400 unique people have downloaded the Theresa Lanowitz Interview on IT Spending into today’s economic environment.   Business Analyst’s can take comfort in her statements on how critical their job function is to cutting IT costs in this complex financial situation.    Requirements definition professionals (ie BAs) and empowerment tools/workbenches cut costs by eliminating rework and shortening project time lines.Today, we are posting this Podcast to our library on iTunes.  You can subscribe to our Requirements.net Podcast library through iTunes (see sidebar) or download the Theresa Lanowitz Podcast interview directly here.