On my flight to Sydney, I found a missed requirement. Or perhaps it was a de-prioritized one that just never got developed. And honestly as an end user, I won’t ever know. The issue was that I most often fly American, and for this trip I was flying on a partner airline. Well, because they [...]

Our 5th Requirements Engineering Education and Training (REET) workshop was a huge success! Honestly, this workshop is just fun – of course we can be serious and have smart discussions, but really I feel like we have found a nice blend of keeping it informal and comfortable while also productive. And I truly do mean “we” [...]

Seilevel is looking to fill positions in 3 different areas: Database Administrator with Salesforce Knowledge We are looking to hire one someone as a contractor for a CRM database project. We need to migrate our Sales Force database over to our new CRM Microsoft Dynamics. Ideally we are looking for someone who has experience with [...]

Our 5th REET workshop is tomorrow in Sydney, Australia! I’m excited about our agenda – below you can see all the papers and authors that will be presented. Also notice that we have tons of discussion and activity time planned into the agenda. I already have 8 different interactive activities that workshop participants will demonstrate [...]

Are you attending REET’10 or RE’10 in Sydney Australia? If you are going to either of these Requirements Engineering speaking engagements don’t miss out on another event. The Sydney DAMA chapter is hosting Joy Beatty and she is presenting: Visualization using RML®: A Practical Suite of Requirements Models Seilevel is a professional services company based in [...]

We look for the best and brightest when hiring for Requirements Analysts and Product Managers. It’s a long and difficult process with many people applying; only a fraction get through the first interview and even less are able to hang in the process as it continues. This has brought great strain to our company: as [...]

I am working on shortening our Requirements Elicitation and Facilitation training course to be a 4 hour course this week. I came across an L1 process flow I had forgotten I created that describes the steps in the Requirements Elicitation process. The generic process for elicitation often starts with you not knowing anything about a [...]

I have recently had the joy of working with several of our newer (OK – you can read that as much younger) requirement analysts that have joined Seilevel in the past few months.  I have always enjoyed working with individuals who are just entering or have recently entered the workforce.  The energy they bring, the [...]

I know you are going to call me crazy, but I just have to let everyone know.  Machines are controlling us.  Don’t say I didn’t warn you.  You don’t believe me?  Okay, I’ll explain. People come and go in organizations.  Systems tend to stay much longer.  Simple enough right?  Here is the kicker.  When that [...]

Number 6 in the series, “How to Shoot Yourself in the Foot: 7 ways to do software requirements poorly to set your project up for failure and what to do instead.” Short-change Time Spent on Software Requirements or Don’t do Them at All Don’t Listen to Your Customer’s Needs Don’t use Models Use Weasel Words [...]