R.E.A.L. Knowledge at NASA: A Knowledge Services Model for the Modern Project Environment

How can organizations and practitioners best leverage project knowledge and knowledge services to get things done in the modern complex project environment? R.E.A.L. Knowledge at NASA presents a descriptive project practitioner-centered knowledge model derived from experience in developing knowledge services at NASA.

Requirement Traceability: A Tool for Quality Results

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The usage of Requirements Traceability concepts is based on the completeness of the "evolution" that every project "workstation" has to incorporate in the path to a final acceptable product. The foundation for this control method is a complete collection of customer requirements, mutually agreed between the customer and the supplier who is conducting the project.

Requirements in Agile

When companies move to an agile Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), they often remove the processes and analysis of their waterfall SDLC because, as the Agile Manifesto puts it, “They value individual and interactions over processes and tools.” Some of the rigor should be removed – waterfall processes can get bogged down with gates and sign-offs. However, caution must be exercised to not go too far against processes and analysis and rely just upon backlogs and user stories. Requirements and the analysis that leads to those requirements are just as essential in an agile project as they are in a waterfall project. The difference lies in how much requirements analysis is completed and the timing of it.

Requirements Management as a Core Competency for Project and Program Success

PMI’s Pulse of the Profession® In-Depth Report: Requirements Management as a Core Competency for Project and Program Success is based on a comprehensive survey of more than 2,000 practitioners. This report provides a timely and unprecedented look into the current practice of requirements management and its impact on projects and programs, including exclusive data, analyses and related insights on key issues and questions.

Requirements Management Made Easy

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If what you produced is not what the customer required, most likely you spent a lot of time and energy on something destined to go down the drain.