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Borland 

Borland is a leading Application Lifecycle Management Software that takes a holistic view of the software process, providing Open ALM solutions to manage, measure and improve each critical ALM process: Software Delivery Management, Requirements Definition & Management, Lifecycle Quality Management and Change Management. This approach bridges these individual process areas, offering a complete, end-to-end management platform that unlocks the hidden value of existing ALM products. 

IAG Consulting is a Silver Reseller, and maintains a team of consultants trained in the Borland Products and has used Borland's products on large scale engagements.  A number of IAG's large clients use Borland's tools and IAG is well known for being able to effectively deliver and manage requirements in a Borland CaliberRM™ Repository.


IBM/Rational

IBM Rational software helps organizations automate, integrate, and govern the core business process of software and systems delivery via the IBM Rational Software Delivery Platform.  Offering an array of products, services, and best practices, this open, modular, and proven solution spans the entire software and systems delivery lifecycle. The IBM Rational Software Delivery Platform comprises products in five lifecycle categories and provides the basis for a set of targeted solutions in areas such as Integrated requirements management, Change and release management, and Process and portfolio management.

IAG Consulting has been a Rational Unified Partner for over 5 years and has experience with a number of the tools in integrated requirements management.  IAG works with this tool wherever the client has made a commitment to the RUP process and tools.


RavenFlow

The award-winning RAVEN software for requirements elicitation and definition quickly builds stakeholder consensus on requirements, reduces the time required for stakeholders to approve specifications, reduces developer rework due to requirements errors, and seamlessly integrates requirements and testing.

RAVEN integrates requirements elicitation and definition with the application lifecycle management platforms from IBM Rational, Telelogic, HP Mercury, and Microsoft Visual Studio.

IAG Consulting is a valued member of the RavenFlow Alliance Program and a reseller of the RAVEN product.  IAG maintains teams of consultants versed in the RAVEN product, and uses this software on engagement to improve process documentation.  IAG also recommends this tool for the training of business analysts to help them improve their effectiveness.


eDEV

inteGREAT™ by eDEV connects the collective needs of business analysts, developers and testers through a single, Integrated Body of Knowledge (iBoK), and makes it easy to create, share and analyze the requirements for a business application. Addressing and amalgamating the 10 key dimensions of software requirements, inteGREAT™ enables users to capture a 360° view of the application into a single repository, including: Requirements, Strategy, Data, Process, Network, People, Events, Artifacts, Risk, and Business Rules.

IAG Consulting was an early adopter of this innovative tool that uses knowledge management principles to ensure a thorough capture of requirements into a living repository.  IAG maintains teams of consultants trained in eDEV and has used this technology on engagements in complex assignments.


Enterprise Architect by SPARX Systems

Enterprise Architect is a high performance software modeling and construction tool based on the UML 2.1 standard. With complete traceability from initial requirements to software design decisions, EA provides robust and efficient visualization and collaboration required for large and demanding software development environments. A truly agile modeling solution, Enterprise Architect provides a low installation overhead, and solid performance.  There are now almost 150,000 users of Enterprise Architect worldwide.

IAG Consulting has been a reseller and training partner with SPARX for over 5 years and maintains a team of consultants that build UML repositories populated with requirements for clients on engagments as well as designing and building custom interfaces for the EA tool so that the current SDLC standards of an organization are replicated within a single plaform.




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Research Reports
 
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  • Executive Summary - Business Analyst Benchmark
  • Business Analyst Benchmark - Full Report
  • Tactics for Tomorrow: Specific Steps to Make Immediate Improvement in Business Requirements Quality
  • Diagnosing Requirements Failure
  • Assessing the Impact of Poor Requirements on Companies
  • Executive Guide to Business and Software Requirements
  • Getting Consensus on Business Requirements: Tips and Traps
  • Getting Business Requirements Right
  • The Case for Outsourcing Requirements Facilitation
  • Good Requirements Don't Come Easy
  • Executive Summary: Slides

Templates:

  • Business Requirements Document Template
  • Requirement Specification Template for Data Warehouse Application
  • Invitation Memo and Agenda for a Requirements Discovery Session
  • User Story Card
  • Simple Requirements Log