Pete Carrion, American Financial Group, introduced the discipline of Requirements Engineering and its major components, Requirements Development and Requirements Management. It began by covering basic terms and definitions before progressing to more advanced concepts and recommended practices. It also covered the role of the Requirements Analyst and the benefits to be gained from having a high quality requirements process.

SPEAKER: Pete Carrion, Divisional Vice President , American Financial Group

Pete Carrion is the Divisional Vice President in charge of Requirements Engineering for the American Financial Group (AFG) IT Services division. Before assuming this position, Pete established and led the AFG Software Process Improvement (SPI) Program and the Great American Insurance Specialty Division's software quality program (encompassing SPI, Software Quality Assurance, Configuration Management, and Formal Testing). Before coming to AFG, Pete spent over 20 years in the U.S. Air Force in the IT arena, working in a variety of organizations and positions, including computer operator/system administrator, programmer/analyst, software engineer, project and program manager, culminating with a position as Director of IT for the Air Force Space Environment Forecasting System. From 1989 - 2000, he also specialized in SPI using the Software Engineering Institute's Software Capability Maturity Model (CMM or SW-CMM), successfully leading organizations to CMM Maturity Level 2 and 3 ratings.