Now the different team structures and team building phases have been discussed we will now zoom in on the execution phase. The project experiences will be shared of the primary interpersonal issues, the impact on the team relationships till taks accomplishment and project management action strategies. This will give first-hand …

We all know what communication is: a two-way process in which we act as transmitters of information to someone else, the receiver. The objective, of course, is to generate some response in the receiver. The desired response is usually to get the receiver to take some form of action. If the process of …

Revisiting Requirements Elicitation. Requirements elicitation is the process of discovering and clarifying the needs, capabilities, conditions, and constraints that a project must satisfy to deliver a solution or product that meets the client/market needs. Requirements elicitation is by far the significant activity taken by a business analyst or requirements engineer. …

How to use traceability and what’s the value of traceability? In this part, let’s look at what traceability can be used for and where it delivers value to application, system or product development. Why is traceability necessary/important? Isn’t traceability just an overhead, an onerous documentation task that’s only done in …

What is traceability? Or more specifically what is requirements traceability? Well rather than repeat what is already a good collection of definitions, I’ll refer you to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Requirements_traceability. From there I’d summarize three elements to requirements traceability: Following the life of a requirement – from idea to implementation How requirements impact each …

Why base line your requirements? Usually projects start with unclear requirements and expectations. Lack of base lined requirements can result in chaos with lots of requirements changes resulting in requirements and scope creeps. Baselines can also help in acceptance testing and prototyping efforts. Baselines are especially valuable in fixed price …

What is requirements management and why is it important? The world of requirements management has developed significantly in the last decade or so and has increasingly become one of the corner stones of successful software and systems engineering projects. We have been discussing various aspects of the domain from a best …

I’m working 10+ years in IT outsourcing environments with services being provided mainly from India, but also from Hungaria, Malaysia and South-Africa. For getting an idea about IT outsourcing transitions this excellent writing of Stéphane Chalvin is very useful! There is no IT Outsourcing without a Transition The information technology outsourcing …

Via the businessinsider.com article “15 must-read books by tech CEOs that will give you a peek inside their brilliant minds” it provides you the must-read tech business books with interesting stories of the greatest tech companies around. One interesting book is the story of Marc Benioff’s Behind the Cloud: The Untold Story of How …

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