Big Iron. Green Screen. Transaction Processing Systems. Mainframe. No matter what you call them, legacy systems are all around us in organizations of all shapes and sizes in every industry we can think of, including many high-tech, bleeding edge technology companies. And these systems increasingly drive the need for software requirements, mostly for system retirement, [...]

If your IT projects and requirements elicitation processes seem a little overwhelming, consider what it would be like to be a product manager on Aadhaar. A few months ago, a friend referred me to this article in the New Yorker about a new social project sponsored by the Indian government and spearheaded by billionaire founder [...]

Many, if not most, software shops prefer to use Agile instead of Waterfall. That makes sense, right? Short cycles where you see progress quickly that allows you to make changes without the sky falling; I like that too! Agile also affords a close environment where the team is co-located, so that communication can move freely, [...]

Normally, “taking work home with you” is considered to be a negative thing, proof that your work-life balance is out of whack. However, lately I’ve noticed that the things I learn and do at work are affecting my personal life, and not in a bad way. As a requirements analyst, one of the most important [...]

Joy Beatty, VP of Research at Seilevel, participated in a panel discussion on software requirements on Information Management Magazine’s “DMRadio.” If you’d like to listen to the archived discussion, you can find it here: http://bit.ly/zCznao The hour-long interview and discussion was hosted by Eric Kavanagh, CEO at The Bloor Group, and Jim Ericson, editorial director [...]

At Seilevel, when we talk about software requirements we talk a lot about visual models, going into detail about specific models, how to use visual models, and the mechanics of the particular model. But I thought I would take a step back and talk about why we use visual models at all. When most people think [...]

Joy Beatty, Seilevel’s VP of Research, will be participating in an Information Management panel discussion on requirements delivered live tomorrow, February 9, 2012. Learn more about the panel and register here: http://bit.ly/zCznao The hour-long interview and discussion is hosted on DM Radio by Eric Kavanagh, CEO at The Bloor Group, and Jim Ericson, editorial director [...]

(Note: this Seilevel blog post was contributed by Weston Eidson, who knows much more about fantasy football than the author listed on the post.) Office conversation recently turned to fantasy football, as it will when the football season wraps up. This led, as it often does, to a “nonsense” question asked. In a modeling diagram [...]

Joy Beatty, Seilevel’s VP of Research, will be participating in an Information Management panel discussion of requirements delivered live February 9, 2012. Learn more about the panel and register here: http://bit.ly/zCznao The hour-long interview and discussion is hosted on DM Radio by Eric Kavanagh, CEO at The Bloor Group, and Jim Ericson, editorial director of [...]