Benchmark Study
"The Four Routes of Requirements"
This presentation highlights the progression of requirements process maturity and how it relates to four key drivers - Protecting Production, Delivering to a Schedule, Ensuring the Customer Experience, and Sustaining Product Quality. As part of a 2009 series of benchmark studies to improve the quality of Software Development Practices, Software Quality Associates examined activities specific to the overall efficiency, delivery and management of requirements.
Analysis of the data revealed that there are four organizational and project drivers that are key factors in determining whether the requirements will be controlled (reactive) or managed (proactive) on their journey from point of origin to production. This presentation will demonstrate how discussion and understanding of these drivers at the onset of a project will help improve alignment of Business Strategy and IT Activity and set the stage for overall project success.
Key Findings Include:
- Knowledge of four distinct patterns (requirements routes) and how they determine whether requirements are either “controlled” or “managed” through the software development lifecycle.
- Knowledge of how these patterns are core indicators of the maturity of the Requirements Process.
- Recommendations to help realize the return on investment for projects
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