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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...

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Best 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...

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Organizations 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...

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Assigning 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...

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When 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...

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How Deep Does the Reuse Rabbit Hole Go?

The post How Deep Does the Reuse Rabbit Hole Go? appeared first on Jama Software.

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Best 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...

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Visibility Encourages Project Success

The post Visibility Encourages Project Success appeared first on Jama Software.

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The Five Most Important Technology Shifts in Business Analyst Tools

The post The Five Most Important Technology Shifts in Business Analyst Tools appeared first on Jama Software.

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Top 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...

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Top 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...

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Measuring 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...

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Top 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...

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Best 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...

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Defining 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...

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Top 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...

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Tips 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...

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Knowing 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...

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Productivity-Killing Monsters of Requirements and Tips to Slay Them

The post Productivity-Killing Monsters of Requirements and Tips to Slay Them appeared first on Jama Software.

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Executive 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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