The Requirements Day - User Survey - Nigel Bechwith_ Speedsoft

1. The Requirements Day
Nigel Beckwith - SpeedSoft
Marcel Overeem - SpeedSoft
Gerard Fianen - SpeedSoft
Ulf Sandberg – Visure Solutions
Pablo Gonzalez - Justinmind
Fernando Valera Visure Solutions

2. SpeedSoft
• Founded to deliver Requirements Engineering
Solutions
• Joint venture of
– Mareem Requirements Engineering and Process
Consultancy
– Indes Specialist in test and quality tools
– Nigel Beckwith Former MD Telelogic Benelux
• Founded in 2010
• Focus on pragmatic and cost effective
solutions
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3. Why The Requirements Day?
• A view that
– Many organisations still struggle with Requirements
– Dominant tooling is Word/Excel
– Agile processes change the perception, but not the
problem
– Various analyst reports indicating widespread issues
with RE
• Is this true?
• Survey to see what the situation in the Benelux
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4. The Requirements Survey
• 17 questions relating to
– Requirements Engineering
– Requirements Capture
– Project Process
– Project Outcomes
– Testing
• Small response, but….
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5. Company size
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6. RE Process
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7. Requirements Change
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8. Relationship to client
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9. Test phase
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10. Rework
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11. Project Outcomes
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12. How much spent on RE
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13. What tool is in use
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14. Conclusions
• Surprisingly heavy reliance on Word / Excel
• Requirements a larger than expected
proportion of total project cost
• Struggle to get good quality requirements in a
timely way
• Requirements process could be better
• Can we help…?!
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