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- The Root of the Problem: Poor Requirements - Three Strategies for Addressing Three Types of Requirements Problems
- The quality of software requirements is a limiting factor on the success of software development projects. And it's the rare IT organization that couldn't improve its requirements practices. When it comes to getting requirements right, companies struggle on two primary fronts: requirements definition and requirements management. But the market places...
- Tags: Software, Strategy, Requirement, Forrester Research Inc., Software Development, Tools & Techniques, Development Tools, Software/Web Development, Management
- White papers 2006-09-01
- Requirements Management: The Proven Way to Accelerate Development
- Requirements management is an often underutilized discipline in software development. Yet the economic benefits - lowered development costs, faster development and better products that delight customers - have plainly been demonstrated in study after study. In this paper, renowned engineering process expert Karl Wiegers makes the case...
- Tags: Serena Software Inc., Requirements Management, Product Development, Product Marketing, Software Development, Development Tools, Strategy, Research & Development, Business Operations, Marketing, Software/Web Development, Management
- White papers 2005-05-01
- Requirements Engineering Patterns
- Requirements engineering the elicitation, documentation and validation of requirements is a fundamental aspect of software development. Unfortunately, and to the detriment of everyone involved, requirements engineering efforts are often shortchanged or even completely forgone in favor of "getting the code out as soon as possible, at all cost." This month...
- Tags: Software, AmbySoft, Software Development, Development Tools, Tools & Techniques, Software/Web Development, Management
- White papers 2000-05-01
- Using Visual Studio Extensibility Mechanisms for Requirements Specification
- Although software requirements engineering is an essential activity for the successful development of information systems, most of the existing software development environments do not provide support for requirements specification. They concentrate on the development activities, such as code edition, solution management, components testing and deployment, change and configuration management, or...
- Tags: Microsoft Visual Studio, Specification, Requirements Specification, Visual Studio .NET IDE, Microsoft Development Tools, Research & Development, .Net, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Business Operations
- White papers 2005-06-28
- Requirements: An Introduction
- In a software development project, requirements drive almost every activity, task, and deliverable. By applying a few key skills and an iterative development approach, one can evolve requirements that will help ensure success for one's project. Use separate documents to record needs, features, and requirements, and improve the accuracy of...
- Tags: Requirement, Software Development, Tools & Techniques, Development Tools, Software/Web Development, Management
- White papers 2004-04-16
- Managing Requirements Changes in SDLC
- Requirements continuously change. This change is either because of incomplete and non-deterministic character of requirement that is caught as a defect during the reviews or testing stage or because the needs themselves change. While requirements present that dynamic nature, managing this change all through the software development lifecycle has an...
- Tags: SDLC, Requirement, Product Development, Software Development, Change Management, Product Marketing, Development Tools, Strategy, Research & Development, Business Operations, Software/Web Development, Tools & Techniques, Management, Marketing
- White papers 2004-09-11
- Capturing Project Development Success
- With ever-increasing market pressure to deliver more business value in shorter timelines, IT departments and software development organizations are always seeking ways to improve productivity, build applications that are aligned with customer needs, and improve the competitive advantage of their organizations. Today, many organizations are putting a focus on the...
- Tags: Application Development, Project Development, Requirement, Software Development, Development Tools, Middleware, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2007-05-01
- Architecture-Based Development
- The development of a software architecture is a critical step in the development of large software-intensive systems. A software architecture is fundamental for the development of software produce lines where multiple systems with different functionality are created from the same basic architecture. Even with this emphasis on architecture, the process...
- Tags: Software, Architecture, Software Architecture, Tools & Techniques, Management
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- MSDN Webcast: Defining and Managing Requirements With Visual Studio and Visual Studio Team System (Level 100)
- Developing precise and accurate requirements is a crucial step in the success of a development project or a new business process. Microsoft Visual Studio Team System, along with Microsoft Visual Studio partner solutions, can help companies improve their requirements development process. A number of partner solutions provide the capability to...
- Tags: Microsoft Developer Network, Microsoft Visual Studio, Team, Webcast, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Development Tools, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- Webcasts 2008-01-17
- Capture the right user requirements with these best practices for writing software specifications
- An application development specification describes how to meet user needs: it gives shape to the requirements, defines the quality of the product, and elaborates the product's design and interfaces. The successful design and development of a piece of software depends on capturing the right user requirements. This document explains what...
- Tags: Application Development, Specification, Best Practice, Application Development Specification, Software Development, Development Tools, Middleware, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software
- Download resources 2006-07-17
- Getting Requirements Right in the Analysis Phase
- Compuware Optimal Trace is a powerful requirements capture and management solution that facilitates collaboration between business and technical teams in the gathering and management of changing requirements throughout the software development life cycle. It fully supports the concepts of structured requirements as outlined in this paper. Designed for ease of...
- Tags: Requirement, Analysis, Compuware Optimal Trace, Software Development, Development Tools, Software/Web Development
- White papers 2007-07-12
- MSDN Webcast: Defining and Managing Requirements With Visual Studio and Visual Studio Team System (Level 100)
- Developing precise and accurate requirements is a crucial step in the success of a development project or a new business process. Microsoft Visual Studio Team System, along with Microsoft Visual Studio partner solutions, can help companies improve their requirements development process. A number of partner solutions provide the capability to...
- Tags: Microsoft Developer Network, Microsoft Visual Studio, Team, Webcast, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Development Tools, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- Webcasts 2008-01-17
- The Requirements Authoring Starter Kit by Softagon Corporation
- The Requirements Authoring Starter Kit by Softagon ("RASK") is a new application that turns Microsoft Office Word, the preferred tool for software developers and analysts responsible for creating software requirements, into a more powerful and yet user friendly front-end for managing structured XML requirements data. RASK takes advantage of the...
- Tags: Software, RASK, Software Development, Tools & Techniques, Development Tools, Software/Web Development, Management
- White papers 2005-11-01
- Managing Requirements Authoring - Click-Through Demo (msi)
- This is a portable, interactive demo that closely simulates the UI and functionality of an actual solution. Installs to your Start menu and includes a presenter script. Scenario Summary: Software development projects can be bolstered by more effective requirements gathering and authoring. With todays distributed development teams often located in...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Requirement, Software Development, Team Management, XML, Telecommunications, Software/Web Development, Management, Web Development
- Software downloads 2007-10-05
- Five common errors in requirements analysis (and how to avoid them)
- When requirements are done rightTechRepublic members have often shared their bad experiences with requirements analysis and other development processes. Perhaps it is time to ask about your most successful process. Why did it work so well? What did
- Tags: analysis, application development, Mark W. Kaelin, melonfire, project management, requirements
- Discussion threads 2007-01-02
- Requirements Management: Identify, Specify, Track and Control Requirements Using a Standard Process
- Requirements are an integral part of the development process connected through traceability with marketing specifications, analysis diagrams, design models, code files, test procedures and virtually every other project deliverable. The structure of product requirements usually lends itself well to organizing the design, implementation and test activities that follow. The mapping...
- Tags: Product Requirement, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, Marketing Research, Office Suites, Software, Marketing
- White papers 2003-08-21
- SOA Development Using IBM Rational Software Development Platform: A Practical Guide
- Business-Driven Development for SOA enables organizations to achieve two vital objectives in today's business climate - business flexibility and the alignment of IT with business goals. The IBM Rational Software Development Platform provides development teams with a complete, open, modular and proven environment for business-driven development of flexible SOA solutions....
- Tags: Software Development, Business-driven Development, SOA, IBM Corp., IBM Rational Software Development Platform, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Strategy, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Management
- White papers 2005-09-01
- Reducing Risk Through Requirements-driven Quality Management: An End-To-End Approach
- When IT undertakes a development project, it contracts with the business which requirements will be fulfilled and when they will be delivered. No attorney would permit his client to sign a legal contract unless all the risks were known, yet IT departments often lack the ability to quantify and respond...
- Tags: Risk, Hewlett-Packard Co., Information Technology, Strategy, Management
- White papers 2007-05-01
- Requirements Derivation and Software Estimation With UML and Rhapsody
- Rhapsody is the industry's leading UML 2.0 based Model-Driven Development environment for systems and software engineering, and uniquely extends UML 2.0 to allow C developers, who are used to working with files and functions, to feel comfortable with UML. This webcast covers derivation of software requirements from system requirements, development...
- Tags: Software, UML 2.0, RealNetworks Rhapsody, I-Logix, UML, Programming Languages, Tools & Techniques, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Management
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