Tuesday, November 11, 2008 @06:30 PM / registration @ 06:15 PM
The Process Group
Requirements development is an essential activity that can make or break any project. If you are a software developer or business analyst, you probably have had good and bad experiences of eliciting and defining requirements.
Requirements documents are usually full of long narrative and ambiguous paragraphs that make understanding the requirements a challenge for customers, developers and testers. In this session, Mary Sakry will step through a straightforward requirements template that breaks requirements into unique items. The result is a requirements document that is easy to read, understand and change.
Learning Objectives:
The audience will learn:
• How to differentiate and organize the following types of requirements:
• The characteristics of maintainable and changeable requirements documents
Mary Sakry is co-founder of The Process Group, a software engineering process improvement consultancy. She has 32 years of experience in software and process engineering. For 15 years she was a Software Manager within TI. In 1989 she lead TI’s process assessment effort and was a member of an SEPG. Mary is an SEI authorized appraiser for SCAMPI appraisals, certified high-maturity appraiser, and Intro to CMMI instructor. She has an M.B.A. (St. Edwards) and B.S. in Computer Science (Minnesota). She is the co-author of Making Process Improvement Work - A Concise Action Guide for Software Managers and Practitioners, Addison-Wesley
