Archive for April, 2010

The Requirements Analysis and Management Process (RAMP)

Wednesday, April 21st, 2010

The Ravenflow Requirements Analysis and Management Process (RAMP) is a business-oriented requirements methodology that describes a best practices approach to defining product, system or software application requirements for optimal implementation by your project team. With a primary objective of getting the right requirements defined up-front, the RAMP methodology has the following key characteristics:

• It reflects a clear business perspective, where the entire requirements lifecycle is driven by business, for business.
• It is process-based, where requirements are defined by analyzing the business processes where the resulting solution will be used.
• It emphasizes the importance of enabling clear communication and true collaboration between business and IT stakeholders.
• It is highly compatible with lean, agile approaches to software development and delivery.
• It is tool- and technology-agnostic, and thus can be applied successfully whether RAVEN or any other product is being used.

The Ravenflow RAMP Methodology describes a business-driven, best practices approach to planning, eliciting, specifying, validating and managing requirements for maximum project success. Bringing together proven business process and use case analysis techniques, the methodology enables rapid definition of essential business requirements by modeling and analyzing the processes where the solution will be used. Required capabilities are mapped from their parent business processes, then broken down into increasing levels of detail until the entire project scope has been specified. This not only ensures the requirements fully reflect business needs, but contain the detail necessary for successful implementation by the development team.

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Writing Effective Business Use Cases

Thursday, April 15th, 2010

Writing use cases is an important part of any product development lifecycle. However, writing “good” use cases is not enough. Effective use cases are used as a basis for system and technical requirements, test plans, and user training.

In this webinar, we’ll provide tips that will enable you to write effective use cases based on current best practices. We’ll also show you how a properly written use case can easily be used in other phases of development. We will provide some tips for developing a process that will maximize the adoption of use cases and finish with a demonstration of how RAVEN can automate the use case writing process.

Who Should Attend?

Business analysts, consultants, project managers, and anyone who is responsible for gathering and writing business and user requirements.

Topics:
• Requirements development phases
• Current requirements development methodologies
• Role of requirements throughout the lifecycle
• What are use cases?
• Benefits of use cases
• Users and stakeholders
• Use case development
• Keys to developing effective use cases
• Components of a simple use case
• How do I get started?
• Alternates and exceptions
• Business requirements and non-functional requirements
• Use case review process
• Developing technical requirements from use cases
• Requirements and testing
• Developing user test plans from use cases

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Find Missing Requirements

Thursday, April 8th, 2010

The most common type of requirements problem, according to Gartner, is missing requirements. Incomplete requirements specifications often result in missed deadlines and rejection of applications at acceptance testing.

Improving communication with all stakeholders can dramatically reduce the number of missed requirements, improving quality and reducing overall time to market.

Attend this FREE webinar to learn more about finding missing requirements during elicitation sessions and during the requirements definition process, as well as solutions for accelerating the requirements development process. Learn how to:

- Identify the most common types of missed requirements
- Accelerate application time to market
- Link business and application development strategies
- Reduce rework costs
- Find missing requirements

This webinar includes a live demonstration of the award-winning RAVEN, winner of the 2009 JOLT Productivity Award!

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