Renewed Commitment to Project Requirements

US CIO and OMB look to focus on the front-end of projects to improve the development of business requirements and position the project portfolio for greater predictability in cost performance. ...

... "He said the OMB was looking for ways to overhaul IT project management in government, starting by creating better project requirements in order to foster cost control before the projects even begin. " ...

Via Information Week: IT Project Management

PM Anecdotes

Here's twenty fun anecdotes on project management ... I especially enjoyed this quote that rings true in the requirements definition stage of an IT project. It's fine to document the requirements discussion, but important to read between the lines. ...

... "You understood what I said, not what I meant. " ...

Via TechRepublic: Project management tips

Project Requirements Gathering

The case is made to reinvent the process of project requirements definition and transition to an iterative, treaty negotiation that balances the needs of stakeholders to achieve the goals of the enterprise. ...

... "We should think of a set of requirements as being like a multilateral treaty among a group of nations. Representatives of nations negotiate treaties by seeking out points of agreement, acknowledging constraints, compromising, and trading off. " ...

Via Builder AU: Stop gathering requirements

Project Requirements Management Tool

Tool incorporates multiple perspectives in the requirements development process. ...

... "inteGREAT connects the collective needs of business analysts, developers and testers through a single, Integrated Body of Knowledge (iBoK), and makes it easy to create, share and analyze the requirements for a business application. " ...

Via eDev: Software Requirements Specifications

Requirements Definition

Online seminar focuses on the common challenge of getting the requirements right. ...

... "The Requirements Baseline must have verified requirements, which translate into doing the thing right, and validated requirements, which translate into doing the right thing. " ...

Via Global Knowledge: Establishing the Requirements Baseline, Web Seminar