July 12, 2007
July Theme:
The process of functional and system level requirements
Panel discussion:
Tough Requirements Problems and Proven Solutions
Panelists:
Linda Shafer, IEEE Computer Society Publications Board - (Linda's introductory speaker notes)
Debbie Yedlin, Product Manager, Borland - (Debbie's introductory speaker notes)
Tony Chen, President of Seilevel in Austin - (Tony's introductory speaker notes)
Overview:
Everyone knows that if you don’t get the requirements
right, you waste lots of time and effort building something that doesn’t
meet the customer’s needs. Even after decades of documenting and teaching
best practices, we still have tough problems in search of solutions that
really work.
This month’s meeting brings together several experts in the field to talk about tough requirements problems they’ve each faced, and solutions they found to work. After talking through their examples, they will field questions from you to see if they’ve encountered something similar, and how they dealt with them..
This month’s meeting brings together several experts in the field to talk about tough requirements problems they’ve each faced, and solutions they found to work. After talking through their examples, they will field questions from you to see if they’ve encountered something similar, and how they dealt with them..
About the Panelists:
Linda Shafer, a 40-year veteran of the software
engineering industry, who has worked for IBM, Motorola, the State of Texas
and The University of Texas. She will focus on the human element in capturing
and expressing requirements, a set of skills that sometimes eludes software
developers.
Ian Buchanan, a key architect of the Together tools while at TogetherSoft for many years and now a product manager at Borland. He will discuss tough problems helped (or caused) by using visual modeling tools, as well as some interesting challenges with decision-making when handling agile development requirements with user stories.
Tony Chen, President of Seilevel in Austin, who has worked with numerous Fortune 500 companies on requirements handling and was instrumental in defining the methods used at Seilevel. He will consider requirements challenges that have been solved with use-case approaches.
Ian Buchanan, a key architect of the Together tools while at TogetherSoft for many years and now a product manager at Borland. He will discuss tough problems helped (or caused) by using visual modeling tools, as well as some interesting challenges with decision-making when handling agile development requirements with user stories.
Tony Chen, President of Seilevel in Austin, who has worked with numerous Fortune 500 companies on requirements handling and was instrumental in defining the methods used at Seilevel. He will consider requirements challenges that have been solved with use-case approaches.