This paper presents a set of agile meeting and facilitation checklists that offer an easy framework to help guide software development teams through the various agile cycles. Read on to learn about the Agile Development Rhythms and start using the checklists presented herein to help get through the various agile cycles. 

This white paper discusses the significant impact of agile development techniques on the business analyst community. Gain insight into the skills required by analysts for effective agile development, as well as the steps for a transition to agile... 

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This document discusses the challenges in implementing DOORS in a rapidly evolving environment and the clear payoffs from using DOORS to integrate across diverse disciplines and to boost the collaborative effort. 

A company’s overall success largely relies on the software team’s success. Organizations that embrace this concept experience less frustration, fewer errors, and faster planning and development cycles. Read this guide to learn about seven essential tips to help you be more successful with requirements management and software development. 

Requirements management is critical to the success of a project but can be a pain to fully implement. Read this paper to find out what is really required to be successful at requirements management and how requirements management is being redefined to provide a faster, easier, more collaborative way to ensure project success. 

Following project and portfolio management methodologies can help you keep a handle on costs and pursue the projects with the greatest value to the business. Here's how. 

Scope creep kills innovation. Over $1 trillion is spent each year on R&D, and 60% of the projects fail due to requirements issues. By using requirements management best practices you can achieve 2x higher profits and 6x faster development cycles. 

The goal of this paper is to paint the EIM landscape, noting its components but focusing on the importance of an overarching EIM strategy that focuses on corporate objectives while at the same time offering cross-functional support. 

Download a free trial of IBM Rational Requirements Composer V1.0.0.1, a requirements definition tool for organizations seeking easy to use elicitation and definition tools that enhance their ability to create the right requirements for their projects and drive improved quality, speed, and alignment across the IT lifecycle. 

Many IT project management initiatives often miss goals, exceed budgets and fail to deliver benefits. Read this paper to learn how optimizing project management can help organizations transition from managing IT projects to managing business outcomes. 

In Forrester's 79-criteria evaluation of requirements management tools vendors, five standalone requirements management tools and four application life-cycle management (ALM) solutions that include requirements management capabilities went head-to-head. Read this research paper to see how each one fared.