This hour long seminar is focused on helping application development stakeholders understand how to develop "better, faster and therefore cheaper" application software. The discussion centers on ways to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of the requirements development and management processes by integrating effective application development processes with skilled people using appropriate technology.

· Understand the business need for improving requirements engineering effectiveness and efficiency.

· Understand why a structured requirements elicitation process is needed.

· Understand how requirements are derived by using effective elicitation techniques. Use case analysis is used as an example.

· Understand the role technology plays, and does not play, in the requirements elicitation and management processes.

· Understand that maturing an organization to increasing their requirements management effectiveness and efficiency is an evolutionary process, not a revolutionary process.

· Discuss immediate steps that should be undertaken to begin "Integrating People, Process and Technology".

Intended Audience

The primary audience for this seminar is application development stakeholders who desire an overview of how requirements management can be improved to help increase software development effectiveness and efficiency. These include executive sponsors, program/project managers, product champions/user representatives, requirements analysts, quality analysts and software designers/developers.

SPEAKER: Steven Davis, Requirements Engineering Director (Orasi Professional Services)

Steven Davis has over 30 years of experience in the Information Systems and Technology industries, Steven Davis' career is dedicated to the premise that computer systems can be developed better, faster and more cost-effectively with the suitable application of people skills, effective processes and functional technology. Currently, Steven is the Director of the Requirements Engineering Practice at Orasi Software, Inc. In this role, he primarily focuses on helping clients implement customer-driven development practices, requirements elicitation techniques and requirements elicitation and management processes.

Before joining Orasi, Steven was the manager of process engineering at Starbase Corporation (acquired by Borland). Activities included developing internal training for CaliberRM (Borland's leading requirements management software), requirement elicitation techniques and requirement management processes; developing requirements management and requirements change management processes; conducting process gap analyses; developing implementation strategies; and on-site client mentoring.

In previous roles, Steven was a methodology architect at Deloitte and Touche Consulting, chief methodologist at Vanstar Corporation, and Vice President of Methodology Administration at Structured Solutions Incorporated.

A prolific speaker for organizations such as PMI, QAI, ICSPI, ASQ, IEEE, QAA and SPIN, Steven holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Management from the University of Alabama in Huntsville. He is a licensed instructor of "In Search of Excellent Requirements," the course based on Karl Wiegers' highly acclaimed book Software Requirements (Microsoft Press 2003).

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