Date: Oct 27th, 2009
Meeting time: 9am ET
Meeting location: Virtual Meeting
Meeting topic: Common Pain Points of Requirements Elicitation in Software Development
Agenda:

* Introductions from UG leaders
* Common Pain Points of Requirements Elicitation in Software Development - Wade Towles
* Questions and Answers
* Ideas for upcoming meetings
Summary:
Please join us for a joint virtual meeting between the Greater Charlotte and Richmond Rational user groups.

Wade Towles will cover the following information during the presentation:

* Are your project teams finding too many requirements late in the development cycle?
* Are you seeking ways of defining requirements with greater agility and greater focus on and involvement from your clients?
* In the RD process, are you getting enough good, early collaboration between your business clients and application teams?
* Do your off-site/off-shore teams find it challenging to understand and correctly implement requirements?

Rational Requirements Composer is a Requirements Definition solution and companion product to Rational RequisitePro and DOORS that improves the ability to capture & define requirements using various visualization/scenario techniques, and collaboration tools to unify globally distributed teams to collaborate on requirements, for better, faster project outcomes.

What does it do?

* Gives Analysts ability to capture requirements using business process diagrams, use cases, sketches and story boards
* Allows stakeholders to visualize requirements to increase clarity and confidence in sign-off
* Creates scenarios to expose constraints and trade-offs.
* Chats, alerts, discussion threads, glossaries and validation reviews channel team dialogue and language towards consensus.
* Organizes and connects disparate requirement data and documents to create unified solution knowledge
* Integrates with RequisitePro to connect better requirements with test cases, designs and change requests