Today we have with us Mia McCroskey at Emerging Health Montefiore Information Technology who was recognized as IBM Champion this year. She shares with us her thoughts about the requirements management domain. Welcome to IBM family! It¹s a great pleasure to have you with us as an IBM Champion. Congratulations, How do you feel? I am honored to be recognized in this way not just this year but for the past several years that I have been asked to present my team's stories at Innovate. It may seem... [More]

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In the last post we focused on what you can expect from Requirements Management for Systems Engineering track at Innovate 2012. In this post we will explore what is there in Requirements definition and management for IT application development track at Innovate 2012. We have 16 sessions lined up in this track with focusing on software delivery that revolve around eliciting, defining, elaborating, understanding, organizing, reviewing, communicating and tracking business, user, and software... [More]

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  Does the above graph ring a bell? Many articles, papers and books have talked about the impact of fixing a defect at later stages of development life cycle.  Researches have also been proved that majority of the software defects found in a project are related to requirements and continues to be higher than that arising due to design or coding issues. According to studies conducted, approximately 60%-70% of IT project failures result from poor requirements gathering, analysis, and management*. ... [More]

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