Keep Your Project on Track and Increase Your Chances of Success

Analysts estimate that 71% of software projects fail because of poor requirements management¹. Don't let your software project become another statistic.

In our informative three-part podcast series, Effective Requirements Management, you'll learn the secrets of requirements management that will help your project succeed.

Leading RM experts examine the benefits of a requirements-driven approach to application lifecycle management (ALM) and reveal the principles and techniques of effective requirements capture, definition, management and traceability.

In part one, Effective Requirements - The Thread that Connects IT with the Business, Melinda Ballou of IDC discusses how to improve time-to-market, increase quality and reduce costs by integrating requirements management with the complete application development environment, techniques and best practices through a connected requirements approach to the development lifecycle.

In the second part, Principles for Effective Requirements Management, Professor Ken Jackson, co-author of the book "Requirements Engineering" and Technical Fellow at Telelogic provides his expert view on the essential principles that can help you improve how you capture and manage requirements.

In The Essentials of Requirements Definition, requirements engineering consultant and author, Ian Alexander, describes the practical steps that can help you capture and define customer needs accurately, increasing the chances of project success.

¹ CIO Magazine, November 2005