Blueprint to Present ImageRight Success Story at Project World and Business Analyst World Toronto

Session Will Provide a Case Study and Real-Life Lessons Learned for Improving Requirements Definition for Agile Development

Toronto, ON -- May 6, 2009: Blueprint™, the leading provider of requirements definition solutions, will present a session titled 'Requirements Definition for Agile Development' at the Project Summit and Business Analyst World in Toronto later this month.

Presenter: Tony Higgins, VP Products, Blueprint
Session Title: Requirements Definition for Agile Development
Time: Wednesday, May 13 - 3:45pm - 4:45pm
Location: Metro Toronto Convention Centre - South Building

In this session, business analysts will learn how to choose the right requirements definition techniques for the situation at hand and how to use them in a coordinated fashion for faster and more frequent development iterations. Higgins will present practical and proven approaches used by companies to define requirements in the context of agile development. The session will conclude with a case study, showcasing how ImageRight, the insurance industry's leading content management and workflow system provider, leveraged Blueprint's solution to vastly improve their agile development process.

"Agile is becoming an increasingly popular development methodology as corporations realize it can significantly improve time to market and productivity," said Higgins. "By building requirements specifically for use with an agile process, companies can further improve their efficiency. In this session, we will share a proven approach to defining requirements within agile development projects, and teach business analysts how automated test generation from requirements can be used to enable faster and more frequent development iterations. We will share real-life lessons learned, so that business analysts can walk away with a clear understanding of how to adopt and tune this approach to agile requirements definition."

About Blueprint
Named a "Cool Vendor" in Application Development by leading analyst firm Gartner, and winner of the 2009 Jolt Excellence Award in Design and Modeling, Blueprint delivers the industry's leading requirements solutions purpose built for today's software requirements authors. Blueprint Requirements Center empowers authors and reviewers to visually define, simulate, and validate requirements through context-rich collaboration with stakeholders. Blueprint is a global provider, headquartered in Canada, and with presence, partners and customers in North America and Europe. For more information on Blueprint, http://www.blueprintsys.com.

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