A systems engineering expert explains why requirements-based engineering is the key component in achieving sustainability in product development. Hedley Apperly, VP/GM of Systems and Software Engineering at PTC, makes the case that long term product performance (aka sustainability) is no longer...
Gathering requirements in a virtual world. A look at how BAs need to adjust their technique.
This article will give cover the 10 most recent requirements management, application lifecycle management (ALM), and product lifecycle management (PLM) tools showcased in the requirements.com tool directory. Requirements management tools and lifecycle management tools are critical to...
The C-Suite wants the chip industry to use PLM (Product Lifecycle Management), but are their issues different enough that a more specialized black-box approach would be better?
My thanks to Requirements.com for hosting this web page - allowing me to consolidate links to articles and other resources I’ve produced during the final 10 years of my 50-year career in information technology. The objective is to inform business analysts who have found items I’ve...
This article tackles how successful organizations can use product managers with the right skills as change agents in real digital transformations. The focus is on those product managers who are adept at feature and task prioritization.
One of the hardest tasks that business analysts and product managers are faced with is making sense of large amount of information and requirements they receive from a variety of sources: project stakeholders, business executives, end users, goverment laws and regulations. In...
Most of us should know by now that good requirements engineering can help organizations avoid unnecessary rework, defects, and failed projects. Good requirements ensure the solution reflects exactly what is needed.
Of course, that's easy to say! Hard to delivery...
Having to tackle product requirements is not always easy especially when faced with a complex business domain. This task can be less daunting if the practitioner comes prepared with a framework of the types of scenario that (s)he might encounter. In this article, experienced...
This articles/reference covers in detail the sections and types of information contained in a Software Requirements Specification (SRS) document. The SRS is a common artifact used by many organizations involved in software development activities and it is used to capture not just the scope...
Agile development practices has taken the software development world by the storm and has established itself as the most common and adherred to methodology for designing and developing applications. Its adoption thought has been less successful and it has been received less...
The advent of digitization has shifted many global conflicts from the battel field to the cyberspace. The tools used by our armed forces go beyond the physical world... radar systems, mapping software, AI-assisted decision making, and much more. Does Agile have a role even at...
Part 5 of Dan Tasker’s Requirements in Context series moves on from high-level requirements to detailed requirements, discussing the importance of capturing detailed data-specific business needs in a data dictionary (DD).
The primary objective of the Requirements In Context series is to help business analysts improve their elicitation and documentation of requirements. It does this by providing a clear distinction between high-level and detailed requirements and, for detailed requirements, offering...
The data architect plays a critical role in today's enterprise. Data, and large amounts of it, is more ubiquitous than ever especially in tech savvy organizations and all large enterprises. They are charged with establishing, deploying, managing, and enforcing an...
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