Two Whitepapers on Requirements from Blueprint

In anticipation of our 2011 ProjectWorld® & World Congress for Business Analysts® event next week, our partner Blueprint is offering our readers exclusive access to two whitepapers on requirements management.

Download the papers: "Microsoft Office: The Wrong Tool for Software Requirements" and "Better Requirements through Better Validation." 

Blueprint is the world leader in requirements management solutions for enterprise application development. Its patented requirements definition and management software improves the expressiveness and quality of requirements, dramatically reducing the miscommunication that leads to rework, delays, and budget overruns. With Blueprint’s solution, business analysts clearly express requirements using a range of visual formats that are integrated to enforce consistency and remove conflicts, stakeholders understand and efficiently validate the requirements, and the team effectively leverages them throughout the entire lifecycle. Blueprint dramatically improves the software development lifecycle, accelerating delivery times and reducing costs for hundreds of major corporations. Headquartered in Toronto, Blueprint has sales offices throughout North America.

Want to learn more? Meet with Blueprint at this year's ProjectWorld® & World Congress for Business Analysts®. Readers of our blog receive an exclusive 15% discount off the standard registration rate with code PW11BLOG. Register today.

Researching Requirements?

Yesterday, the 2010 Project World and World Congress for Business Analysts webinar series presented "Better Requirements through Better Requirements Validation" featuring Tony Higgins, VP of Product Marketing at Blueprint Software Systems.

For a glimpse at some of the content covered in the presentation, check out this video Blueprint Software Systems uploaded to youtube previewing one of their products.



You can also read a great blog post from Tony Higgins here. In this post he addresses some of the same topics that were covered in the webinar. For example, moving beyond text documents to describe your requirements through images or models. A key takeaway from both the webinar and this post can be found in the following quote:

"using diagrams tends to be far more expressive than using text-only, helping people expose errors in the requirements early and improve communication."

For access to our exclusive year-round learning webinar series, join us this Fall at ProjectWorld® & World Congress for Business Analysts® 2011.

Within one conference package, you'll get a pass to the annual PW&WCBA November event plus exclusive access to a networking community and on-demand webinars, to help you grow and learn throughout the year.

To learn more, download the 2011 brochure here, or register for the event here. Save 15% off the standard rate as a reader of our blog with code PW11BLOG.

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