Defining Software Requirements

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Does This Sound Familiar?

• "And then a miracle happens!"
• "How can we produce usable systems specs – detailed enough to begin software design?"
• "Projects just take too long."
• "We’re spending too much time dealing with changes."

"How do you know you’ve captured and specified all the correct requirements?"

• A rapid development cycle maximizing the limited time and resources of the company

• Completing a specification that’s ready to "Code and Go".

• A unique systematic method – compiled from the experts in systems analysis & design, and supporting industry standards from CMM, ISO and IEEE.

• A unique balance between rigorousness and simplicity. All within a framework defined by ISO, CMM, and IEEE.
  
  Correct § Ranked § Unambiguous § Verifiable § Complete § Maintainable § Consistent § Traceable

"I only wished that we had used this on our last project – it would have saved us a huge amount of time and effort."

A real-world course for new or experienced system analysts, designers and architects -- involved in legacy or OO system development, maintenance or enhancement projects.

This session runs through the path to producing good design building on the principles and concepts of Best Business Requirements Practices™ for Specifying Client Requirements.

The course is a mix of presentation, demonstration, and exercises. The same real-world case study is carried through the session resulting in a completed, detailed System Requirement Specification addressing the individual nuances of the participants.

• Use systematic techniques for specifying requirements – like use-case scenarios, process modeling, data modeling, object modeling and many others.
• Easily transition from user requirements to a systems design specification.
• Apply practical, proven analysis and design best practices—built on the framework and standards from IEEE, ISO and SEI’s Capability Maturity Model (CMM).
• Document the system specification – documents, tools, whiteboard – using the latest methods, procedures, skills and techniques.
• Produce complete, precise and concise specifications – ready to "Code & Go".

"This is the first time I’ve seen everything come together so clearly and easily – this will work in our shop. I’m really excited about it."

• Brings together proven, modern design principles and modeling methods.
• It’s ‘how-to-do-it’—not just a comparison of methodologies.
• It will work directly with your current methodology, tools and key practices.
• A business user-centered method that specifies the system requirements from the perspective of the users’ domain of work – resulting in better design.
• We teach it and we do it
  – seminar leaders are consultants with real on-going project experience.
• Produces a specification faster & more accurately than any method available today –ensuring nothing is missed and it’s done right the first time.

Good design is about taking the user requirements and turning those business needs into a high quality software solution. The tough part of building today’s systems is not usually the coding but the architecture of the software design. The architect needs to understand the needs of the users of the product, and model those requirements in a ‘blueprint’ specification. That specification’s notation and language will be used by both the clients and contractors throughout the construction. It will also be updated with new requirements and/or design considerations and will be used to assess the quality and completion of the product.

That means it is critical that the process to perform this preliminary design be fast enough to meet time-to-market demands of the customer, simple and manageable enough for the architect or analyst to use, and strongly focused on the business user’s application of the product.

That’s why this approach employs the best methods and practices developed by the industry experts and used by leading consultants and companies. The Information Architecture Group has put together this unique framework and practices that quickly results in high quality ‘code & go’ Software Requirement Specifications not previously possible.

Simplicity § Business user-centered § Time-to-market focussed "Objective"- oriented § Stepwise refinement § IT/User interactive Accuracy § Completeness § Clarity § Consistency § Verifiability § Maintainability § Testability § Traceability § Compliance

IEEE § SEI Capability Maturity Model § ISO Standardization efforts

Software Engineering concepts § Object/data-driven § Structured Systems Analysis & Design § Information Engineering § and others

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