Joy Beatty, VP of Research at Seilevel, recently presented to the vibrant business analyst community in Central Iowa at IBADD 2012. CBAPs, CCBAs, and new business analysts learned about: Models for Data Requirements: Many analysts think that “data modeling” means designing databases and technical data models. Business users have no capability of creating and consuming [...]

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 [...]

FYI, if you or those on your teams are going to Business Analyst World Boston, Business Analyst World Las Vegas, or Building Business Capability/IIBA National in Fort Lauderdale, Seilevel will be there. Look for me, and/or Anthony Chen (our president), and/or Jason Benfield (one of our senior product managers). Jason will present October 25 at [...]

Having good tools and frameworks to manage politics on a project is very important to me.  The process of managing project politics in order to obtain requirements and influence decisions might be the most critical part of managing requirements, but it is also the most difficult to solve.  In fact, I even wrote a post [...]

Wednesday, I was fortunate enough to sit on a panel with Alistair Mavin, Sam Phillips, and Peter Jones and participate in a Dragon’s Den-style competition.  The Brainchild of Jane Celeland-Huang and Daniela Damian, the interactive panel was created in order to foster communication between researchers and practitioners, but also to help focus researchers on the [...]

In my last blog post, I alluded to a “coup” at the IEEE RE conference.  Today marked the beginning of what is being described in some circles as the “Velvet Evolution” of RE Conferences.  This was borne out of late-night discussions about the goals of such conferences, and whether requirements conferences are actually achieving the [...]

Greetings from Trento, Italy!  I am here at the IEEE RE’11 on behalf of Seilevel.  As part of my conference duties, I helped conduct a workshop on Monday on Requirements Engineering Education and Training (or REET) with Ljerka Beus-Dukic. The full program is here. We played a version of Seilevel’s  requirements-oriented game “Guess What We [...]

What are you doing June 5th-10th? Hopefully you’re joining us for the Better Software Conference in Vegas. We’re excited to announce that Joy Beatty will be co-presenting a two-day workshop, “Business Analysis and Requirements Workshop: Building Your Playbook for Success” Monday June 6th and Tuesday June 7th. We hope to see you there! About the [...]

We’re heading north…way north! Seilevel will be hitting Toronto with a vengeance. You can catch us throughout the week at ProjectWorld * BusinessAnalystWorld, but here are two places you’re guaranteed to find us during the event. Exhibiting- Swing by and meet us during exhibit hall hours: Monday, May 16th- 7:30am-6:00pm Tuesday, May 17th- 7:30am-3:00pm Our very own Joy [...]

Call for Papers for The 6th International Workshop on Requirements Engineering Education and Training (REET’11) In conjunction with the 19th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE’11) The workshop will be held in Trento, Italy on Monday 29th August 2011 PAPERS DUE ON 6 June 2011 This workshop will address issues related to RE education, both [...]