We are proud to announce that Blueprint Requirements Center 2010 has won a Jolt Productivity Award in the highly competitive category of "Design, Architecture, and Planning Tools". This is the second time Blueprint has won a Jolt Award, the first being for Requirements Center 2009. To quote from the judges "With no shortage of features, a simple interface, and a great attention to detail, Requirements Center has earned its place as a must-have tool, which will bring greater productivity and quality to projects of all sizes" . Read it all here.
Posted by Tony Higgins on 11/05 at 06:39 AM in
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Money Magazine has ranked the role of IT Business Analysis is ranked as one of the best jobs in America for fast growth, number 11 on the list in fact, saying that “demand for these skills has skyrocketed”. In the previous year, 2010, the role ranked 26th in the list. Check out the Money Magazine entry for IT Business Analyst.
As a vendor of business analysis solutions we visit hundreds of companies a year in a wide cross-section of industries. Seeing on a daily basis how pivotal the role is and the impact it has on business, we can certainly see first hand how those positioning themselves for a career in business analysis were making a smart move.
Posted by Tony Higgins on 10/25 at 06:22 AM in
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Requirements are the ‘blueprints’ for a software project, and how good they are can alone determine the fate of a project and the product it delivers. We see more and more companies coming to the realization that modernizing how they do requirements is essential to improving their project’s predictability and success rates. As individuals in an organization start to champion the cause and begin to convince others, the need for a business case quickly arises. To help build your case, start with this new asset “The Business Case for Modernizing Requirements Definition and Management”. Another useful resource is this voke report entitled “Invest for Success – Adopt Requirements Definition Solutions to Deliver Strategic Value and Economic Efficiencies”. We have many other resources available to help you “build your case”, and would welcome the opportunity to assist. For more information, just send us an email.
Posted by Chip Carey on 10/14 at 10:50 AM in
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I always have my eye open for any statistics relating to software development projects in general, and any that relate to requirements in particular. Here are some interesting statistics that I’d thought I’d share.
From Capers Jones in a presentation called “Quality in 2011: A Survey of the State of the Art” in which he presents data derived from many years’ worth of sources including a total of about 13,500 projects from 24 countries. Here are some of his findings …
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Requirements are the highest source of defects in delivered applications (at a rate of 0.23 defects per function point compared to 0.19 for defects from Design, 0.09 from Coding, 0.12 from Documents, and 0.12 from bad fixes).
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Defects having requirements as their source are the hardest to prevent and repair.
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Information Software has more than double the number of defects in delivered applications (per function point) than system software, commercial software, military software, or outsourced software.
From a recent Gartner report on Improving IT Project Success published 2 September, 2011,
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In spite of average efforts on requirements analysis and management having increased from 6% in 2006 to 14% in 2010, there has been no improvement to defect rates.
I’d be interested in hearing any recent statistics you may have come across as well!
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