Putting MANAGEMENT Into Your Requirements Management

Presented by:
Peter Baxter
President
Distributive Management

Wednesday, 17 February 2010 (6:00 – 8:00 pm)

Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University
11100 Johns Hopkins Rd Laurel MD 20723  (Main Entrance – Lobby 1)

 Presentation:  While requirements engineering and requirements tools have become widely adopted, the number of software project failures attributed to poor requirements management remains high. Even though metrics that focus on requirements engineering are widely available, often only the most advanced and mature organizations actually use them.  Managers who do use requirements engineering measures can spot trouble before a software project becomes a death march. The most common requirements engineering challenges faced by organizations attempting to manage the software development process are:

• Most requirements engineering tools don’t provide a way to establish the number of requirements to be developed, the baseline
• Managers generally have no method for assessing requirements engineering progress against the baseline
• Requirements engineering processes don’t quantify the extent and impact of requirement changes on a product
• Managers have no means to monitor and control the flow of requirements from development to design to coding and test

Each of the challenges above is directly addressed when measurement is included as part of requirements management activities. Requirements measures provide project managers with the data needed to actively manage their projects. And by better managing requirements engineering, managers ensure that they deliver a quality product that completely satisfies customer expectations.
In this presentation, Peter Baxter President of Distributive Management, delivers practical guidance on why and how to measure, and then manage, requirements, including recommended  Requirements Management visuals.

Speaker:  Peter Baxter is President of Distributive Management, where he directs delivery of measurement related products and services. He manages the development of measurement solutions for military, government and commercial customers. He has had the privilege of working with the most quantitative and mature software and systems organizations such as Intel, Motorola, Raytheon, Lockheed, General Dynamics, and others. He is a frequent author, trainer and presenter on the subject of measurement and metrics. Mr. Baxter is actively involved in the development of systems and software measurement standards and guidebooks in leading professional organizations, including IEEE, ISO, Practical Software Measurement and the INCOSE Measurement Working Group.

Note: Dinner will be held in the Howard County Room #3 (Enter the Main Laboratory Entrance, Lobby 1, and take a right at the guard station into the main cafeteria. We’re down at the end of the hallway in the very last dining room.) Topic discussion will follow dinner.

Dinner Reservations:  To register for dinner, contact Dave Griffith at d.griffith@ngc.com or call 410-993-2806.  

Dinner Cost:For Guests: $20;  For INCOSE members: $15 if payment is received by Feb 12^th, 2010,  $20 afterwards.  Visit our Meetings page in order to pay by credit card or PayPal, or to pay by USPS, mail checks (payable to INCOSE-CC) to: Dave Griffith, PO Box 142, Linthicum, MD  21090-0142.

Dinner Cancellation Policy:  If you make a dinner reservation and then find that you will be unable to attend, please notify Dave Griffith by Monday, Feb 15^th, 2010. There will be no refunds after Monday, Feb 15^th, 2010.

Presentation ONLY:  FREE (no reservations necessary)

Corporate Sponsor:  We wish to thank the Applied Physics Laboratory for supporting the systems engineering profession through use of their facilities. 

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