If you're involved in the planning and development of products, software applications or systems, this report is for you. Learn the results of a recent industry survey - get insight on the latest trends, challenges and solutions and learn what development teams are doing to successfully plan and develop new products in a customer-driven economy. 

Quality Assurance (QA) is an integral component in the software development lifecycle to ensure the development of quality, high-performance applications. This E-Guide provides QA best practices, a step-by-step overview of how software QA and testing activities should be organized, and QA's role in requirements gathering. 

Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 provides for a number of installation scenarios. Currently, these installations include single server with built-in database installations and single server or multiple server farm installations. 

This white paper explains the characteristics of a good requirement and presents ten steps to better requirements management. 

Join our industry panel of experts from EADS, CareFusion, and Chrysler as they discuss their experiences in implementing a structured approach to requirements management based on IBM Rational software. 

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. 

Check out these three ROI calculators for estimates on your return on investment using one or more IBM solutions. 

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. 

This white paper considers the changing focus of the requirements space and how requirements definition differs from requirements management. A business analyst's struggles with defining requirements using common office software and tools are related. Finally, a requirements definition solution is introduced and discussed. 

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. 

An effective change management process can help you better identify how alterations will affect cost and schedule so you can keep them in control. This paper will explore change management approaches and how you can use IBM Rational® solutions to manage changes to development, system and IT artifacts. 

IBM Rational ® Requirements Composer helps teams define requirements more effectively and apply 'just enough' management to them across the project lifecycle. Join this webcast to learn more.