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1   Link   Hitting The Mark - The Impact of Requirements Maturity on Project Outcomes
This paper highlights the critical importance of good requirements to the success of your projects, and discusses the need to achieve competency all capability areas; including staff competency and process. This paper also illustrates how well-define
2   Link   Gaining Momentum for Requirements Improvement
Requirements excellence cannot be achieved without first understanding the critical capabilities of requirements maturity, recognizing your organizations strengths and weaknesses, and creating a roadmap for success.
3   Link   Executive Guide to Evaluating Requirements Quality
Requirements quality is tangible. It is possible to look at the specific characteristics of requirements documentation and determine if it is sufficiently clear, accurate and complete to lead to a successful project
4   Link   6 Things Your CIO Needs to Know About Requirements Maturity
If your organization is not predictably successful in technology projects, there is likely an issue in requirements
5   Link   Research: Executive Summary - Business Analyst Benchmark
Provides the key findings of the business analysis benchmark
6   Link   Executive Summary: Slides
PowerPoint Slides from Executive Summary
7   Link   Research Report: Business Analyst Benchmark - Full Report
The full report that addresses:
- The cost to companies of poor requirements
- An assessment of the underlying causes of requirements failure
- Specific steps to take to make immediate improvement on projects
8   Link   White Paper: Tactics for Tomorrow: Specific Steps to Make Immediate Improvement in Business Requirements Quality
IAG focuses on two areas of action:
- How to audit requirements so that project failures are dramatically reduced
- The focus on elicitation to improve overall satisfaction
9   Link   White Paper: Diagnosing Requirements Failure
This paper looks at the underlying causes of requirements and project failure. It takes a critical snapshot of the skills of business analysts deployed by companies on projects and risk mitigation strategies employed by CIOs today.
10   Link   White Paper: Assessing the Impact of Poor Requirements on Companies: Quantifying the Cost of Poor Requirements
IAG research findings showing the impact on project costs and time lines of poor quality requirements.
11   Link   White Paper: Executive Guide to Business and Software Requirements
Requirements Definition is a a central enabling process for business strategy execution that requires executive attention and a discipline to make it perform well. This brief presents statistics, issues, risks, benefits and evaluative tools.
12   Link   White Paper: Getting Consensus on Business Requirements: Tips and Traps
Eight pages with tools for self assessment and project assessment. Benchmark statistics that quantify risks in larger projects, spending on various stages of the typical project lifecycle.
13   Link   White Paper: Getting Business Requirements Right
Fixing the highest-leverage stages in the System Development Life Cycle.

7 pages of statistics on impact of the requirements stage on systems development with a special focus on scoping techniques used in early stage assessment.
14   Link   Article: The Case for Outsourcing Requirements Facilitation
Not enough has been said about the value of using a professional facilitator for eliciting stakeholder requirements. With a unique skill set and vantage point, this is a powerful resource for driving out complete requirements and building consensus.
15   Link   Article: Good Requirements Don't Come Easy
A Project Manager's ability to manage scope has everything to do with clearly understanding stakeholder needs, and that has everything to do with eliciting good requirements. There are solutions but those looking for a quick fix may be disappointed.
16   Link   Case Study RCOE Outsource
17   Link   Case Study BA Training