The Top 5 Frustrations of Project Managers and Tips on How to Avoid Them:...
4. FRUSTRATION: Attention deficit. Creating a detailed 200-page plan that no one has time to read once, let alone every time a change occurs. You did it. You just completed a month-long effort...
View ArticleBest of 2011: The Top Five Whitepapers
Year-end requirements wrap up: The five best whitepapers of 2011. We’ve compiled a list of our top resources in 2011, covering topics from understanding Agile planning to the top frustrations in...
View ArticleOrganizations say reuse is key to working more efficiently. Check out the...
Recreating the wheel is time-consuming, frustrating and costly. And yet, many organizations still rebuild every requirement from scratch when starting a new product. Our hypothesis was that...
View ArticleAssigning Test Runs
So you’re ready to start testing your requirements in Jama. Who’s going to execute the test runs? How can you assign the test runs to your test team? Multiple options exist, but which one is right for...
View ArticleWhen Bad Requirements Happen to Nice People
The major consequence of requirements problems is rework—doing over something that you thought was already done. Rework can consume 30 to 50 percent of your total development cost, and requirements...
View ArticleHow Deep Does the Reuse Rabbit Hole Go?
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View ArticleBest Practices to Ensure Mission Delivery for Government Projects
Major government projects are often challenged by cost overruns, delays and changing requirements. Traditional approaches to development don’t work; government agencies face tighter budgets today and...
View ArticleVisibility Encourages Project Success
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View ArticleThe Five Most Important Technology Shifts in Business Analyst Tools
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View ArticleTop 3 Frustrations of Product Managers
This whitepaper, Top Three Frustrations of Product Managers & Tips to Avoid Them is also available for download. Defining and Executing on the Roadmap The product roadmap communicates the value you...
View ArticleTop Frustrations of Software Engineers and Tips to Overcome Them
The following is the first of a five part series excerpted from our whitepaper Top Four Frustrations of Software Engineers. Anyone who works closely with software engineers understands it takes a big...
View ArticleMeasuring Requirements: Status and Requests for Changes
This article continues the exploration of requirements-related metrics that I began in Measuring Requirements: Product Size and Requirements Quality. Requirements Status Track the status of each...
View ArticleTop Frustrations of Software Engineers: Endless Rework
The following is the third of a five part series excerpted from our whitepaper Top Four Frustrations of Software Engineers. Read the first part here. Your engineering team’s in a perpetual state of...
View ArticleBest Practices for Change Impact Analysis
The need for performing impact analysis is obvious for major enhancements. However, unexpected complications can work below the surface of even minor change requests. A consulting client of mine once...
View ArticleDefining Project Scope: Context and Use Case Diagrams
Every software team talks about project scope and team members often complain about unending scope creep. Unfortunately, the software industry lacks uniform definitions of these terms, and the...
View ArticleTop Frustrations of Software Engineers: Legacy Code
The following is the fourth of a five part series excerpted from our whitepaper Top Four Frustrations of Software Engineers. Read the first part here. Those who develop software using an iterative...
View ArticleTips to Ensure Success with RM: Stay Connected
The following is the first in a 7 part series of tips to ensure success in requirements management. Download the whitepaper, 7 Tips to Ensure Success with RM. It’s easy to forget, but the world relies...
View ArticleKnowing Your Enemy: Risk Management Part 2
In the first part of this two-part series I described the value of managing risks formally on a software project and listed numerous common risks in various categories. This article describes the...
View ArticleProductivity-Killing Monsters of Requirements and Tips to Slay Them
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View ArticleExecutive Drivers: Sustainable Reuse Across the Aerospace Industry
NASA’s ISEE-3 “This is extremely important for revolutionizing access to space because as long as we continue to throw away rockets and spacecrafts, we will never truly have access to space it’ll...
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