Business Rule Driven Requirements

A Seamless Transition from Business Requirements Through Implementation

Every few years, new technology makes an advance in capability that enables more efficient development processes. This webinar describes the ICONIX Business Modeling Roadmap — a process that combines two advances in tools capability to enable a quantum leap in development processes, automating time-consuming steps in business modeling and requirements elicitation, and eliminating errors in translation in the enforcement of business rules. The Business Modeling Roadmap enables business applications that provably meet their requirements to be built quickly and efficiently, while avoiding analysis paralysis.

You’ll learn:
•       How to identify business requirements using narrative business process scenarios and automatically generated activity diagrams
•       How to define business rules and automatically generate algorithmic code for their enforcement, without programming
•       How to identify software use cases for “automatable” business processes and drive these use cases forward all the way to code
•       How to model the problem domain, and why this is fundamentally important to all of the above steps
•       Lessons learned from a case study of a system redesign and implementation at a major healthcare company (anonymity requested to protect the guilty)

Presenter: Doug Rosenberg founded ICONIX in 1984 in order to apply best practices in analysis and architecture to real world software development. Doug has written five books on Software Engineering, most recently “Use Case Driven Object Modeling – Theory and Practice” and currently has two additional titles under development.

Finding Missing Requirements with IBM Rational Requirements Composer

IBM Rational, Ascendant, and Ravenflow invite you to learn about:

Finding Missing Requirements with IBM Rational Requirements Composer (RRC)

IBM RRC is the most talked about Requirements product of 2009. This webinar will include demonstrations of IBM RRC as well as Ravenflow’s RAVEN Visual Analyzer for RRC.

IBM Rational® Requirements Composer® is a requirements definition solution that enables organizations to enhance their requirements processes with easy-to-use elicitation and definition capabilities. Providing various visual and collaborative tools, Requirements Composer enables the capture and refinement of business needs into unambiguous requirements that drive improved quality, speed, and alignment across the IT lifecycle.

RAVEN Visual Analyzer is a plug-in component that adds powerful requirements visualization and analysis capabilities to IBM® Rational® Requirements Composer. Designed to work seamlessly with Composer, RAVEN Visual Analyzer helps optimize requirements elicitation and validation activities, saving time and improving overall requirements quality.

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Accenture Presents: Perfecting Requirements Definition and Management

Featuring Accenture Partner Randy Vogel

The cost of rework, poor quality, and the associated delays in realizing return on investment continue to plague IT organizations.  Getting the requirements right is critical to solving these problems.  

This webinar, drawing on years of practical experience at Accenture, will describe how applying standardized techniques and enabling users through tools and usage guidance helps reduce costs, increase quality, and deliver applications sooner.

Join this webinar to learn:
• Key requirements gathering techniques
• How requirements techniques can be used effectively together
• How an integrated set of tools can be used to automate and enable the techniques

Presenter: Randy Vogel

Randy Vogel is a Partner at Accenture with over 21 years of experience in IT and software development. Randy has been responsible for delivering applications across a broad spectrum of platforms and technologies using globally distributed development teams. Randy currently leads Accenture’s strategic tools program focused on standardizing the tools and processes used globally to deliver high-quality solutions to Accenture clients.

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Making the Business Case for RAVEN

How do you make a business case for bringing RAVEN into your organization?

Your gut tells you there should be a payoff to better requirements, but how do you quanitify what that is? Does the payoff come from:

- Analyst productivity?
- Less developer rework?
- Better testing?
- Catastrophes avoided?
- Better project outcomes?
- Faster delivery times?

In this 30-minute executive webinar, you’ll learn what customer case studies,  industry analysis, and expert opinion have to say about calculating the return on investment (ROI) from better requirements—and the answers may not be what you expect.

This webinar is designed for people who are considering the business case for investing in RAVEN.

Getting Started with RAVEN

Join this webinar for a detailed demonstration and introductory training on RAVEN, recently named the JOLT Productivity Award winner for 2009. You’ll learn the basics of what RAVEN Express and RAVEN Professional are and when to use them.

The “True Universal Language”. When words just don’t cut-it….

Chris Wong, Agile Strategist

Designers in California, developers in Asia, India and Eastern Europe.  Multiple languages, multiple time zones – complex software development.  Sound familiar?  How do you manage communications and consistency – ensuring quality results?    Yep, I’m speaking to those of us who for a variety of reasons (economic mostly) have accepted the opportunity and challenge of leveraging outsourced resources to scale our ability to do more, for less.  For those who can relate, experience has shown that one of the best ways of optimizing our chances at success is to do the best we can to be comprehensive and clear as it relates to business requirements and design.  Clear requirements = comprehensive designs = less to communicate/discuss = better code = quality results (or best shot at it).

Effective Requirements Elicitation Techniques

Elicitation is the unique discovery process of gathering early stakeholder concepts and ideas. Elicitation requires a special skill set to invoke the responses required to produce a quality business specification document. Whether your organization fits traditional, iterative, or agile development approaches, this webinar focuses on developing good facilitation skills.

Lean & Agile Business Analysis: The Forrester View

Tuesday, November 3, 2009 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM PST

Featuring Forrester Senior Research Analyst Mary Gerush

Today’s Leaner, More Agile Software Delivery Processes Call For “New World” Business Analysis

Organizations are seeking to become more lean and agile, and software development and delivery practices have evolved to support this goal. With agile and lean, business and technology teams work together more closely, requirements processes change as new techniques focus on elimination of waste, and documentation is not as important as it has been in traditional software delivery environments.