Whitepapers

Blueprint’s Whitepapers provide in depth analyses of the issues and trends that are confronting today’s Business Analyst as they tackle the requirements definition and management process.


The Business Case for Modernizing Requirements Definition and Management

How Organizations Are improving Project Success Rates. In today’s economy business pressures are increasing, and pressure in turn is being applied to IT to deliver the applications those businesses need to compete, or...

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Microsoft Office: The Wrong Tool for Software Requirements

Although great as an office productivity suite, MS Office is sorely inadequate for working with requirements. For the business analyst, too much time and energy is spent on creating and maintaining a document rather than...

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ROI Scenarios: Invest for Success

In need of a better requirements definition solution? In today's software business environment, business analysts need to be able to understand and deliver viable business outcomes through great requirements.  In this voke report,...

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Success Factors: Leverage Requirements Definition

Need your software to deliver true competitive value for your line of business? Requirements Definition needs to be a strategic part of the business and to positively impact the economics of software development.  In...

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Run with the Bulls - Make Requirements Priority #1

This whitepaper reviews how Requirements Definition software from Blueprint sits at the top of a small list of strategic capabilities that help software executives overcome today’s challenges, providing immediate impact and ROI.  ...

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Optimized Use Cases: How to Build Reusable, Visual, and Intelligent Use Cases for Requirements Definition

Join Blueprint as we discuss how our customers, many of whom had never leveraged Use Cases before, have evolved to leveraging them as a competitive advantage for their business. In this whitepaper, learn: Overcome Limitations...

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Building and Managing a Requirements Center of Excellence

Every software development company would like to maximize their application quality while minimizing cost and time-to-market.  Institutionalizing requirements practices and establishing a framework for their continual improvement over time is a proven approach to...

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Be Expressive: Improving Clarity of Your Requirements

Join Blueprint as we discuss how our customers have transformed their approach to defining requirements, choosing the mode of expression that’s optimal for the type of requirement they’re trying to communicate. ...

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Authoring Requirements in an Agile World

Defining requirements is a challenge.  Using an Agile approach on larger projects that also spans development and testing sounds almost impossible.  In this whitepaper learn how to transform application delivery through an Agile...

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Requirements Definition for Outsourced Teams

Outsourcing is becoming more prevalent as IT organizations find themselves supporting more in-production applications on extremely flat budgets.  With the move towards outsourcing to improve efficiencies, challenges arise on how to communicate requirements to...

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Requirements Definition for Application Modernization

Organizations today are coming under increasing pressure to modernize their business-critical legacy applications. As the costs and risks associated with maintaining older applications continue to rise with each additional enhancement, modernizing becomes less of a...

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The Rework Tax: Reducing Software Development Rework by Improving Requirements

A staggeringly large percentage of application development costs are spent on rework.  Rework is a tax that drains resources and dramatically reduces your company’s ability to react to market demands. Fortunately, you...

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