If you have trouble viewing this email, click here.   With end-to-end business processes, service oriented architectures (SOA) and global outsourcing trends, IT organizations cannot hide from time-to-market pressures and increasing complexity when building software applications. Fortunately, new Requirements Definition and Management capabilities are changing this process. Your organization can now improve their capability maturity with integrated ‘best practice’ Tasks and Techniques and next-generation Tools, collectively T3.The result is Requirements Lifecycle Acceleration, or RLA: improved software quality gains and accelerated delivery throughout the software lifecycle. This three part series focuses on the fundamental topic of Software Requirements, referencing the International Institute of Business Analysis’ (www.theiiba.org) body of knowledge, real-world examples and demonstrations of automation tools. IT organizations now discover how they can achieve Requirements Lifecycle Acceleration by effectively integrating their Tasks, Techniques, and Tools - creating faster, cost-effective improvements. RLA= T3!           The first session will provide an overview of RLA, explaining what’s new and different. We will tour the industry and, with reference to the IIBA’s Business Analyst – Body of Knowledge, examine its future and discover what Tasks you can utilize throughout the software requirements lifecycle. You will learn why there can be no prescribed sequence or dictate for which tasks and techniques are applied and how you can decide what matters. Through understanding and real world examples, you’ll have a foundation from which to craft the optimal RLA= T3 approach for your organization or project.           With a foundation of requirements lifecycle Tasks to guide you, the second session will explore the menu of RLA Techniques you could choose to apply from the BA BOK. Additionally, you will learn what Techniques are appropriate and the cost-benefit of putting them into practice.Other Requirements Lifecycle Acceleration topics covered will include driving out ambiguity in functional requirements with use cases, employing visualization to validate software requirements sooner, and ensuring quality is built-in up front with requirements-driven testing.           By understanding the drivers of productivity and quality, from a Tasks and Techniques perspective, RLA introduces a next generation Tools platform into the equation. While Requirements Definition and Management tools promised much, their adoption has not been universal and they have been unable to displace the BA’s standard toolkit - the office automation suite. For session three, you’ll explore how Blueprint’s Requirement Center 2008 combines next generation BA Workbench capability – lifecycle integration, visual simulation and auto asset generation - with HP’s QualityCenter 9.2 Requirements Management to make RLA = T3 a reality – not just a buzzword – in building better software faster and more cost-effective!