Best Requirements Practices™

On our engagements, IAG uses a variety of methods and techniques known as IAG Best Requirements Practices™. These are practical techniques that have been field proven on IAG engagements. They are primarily defacto standard methods that have been verified as effective best practices for one or more of the Requirements Activities in the IAG Requirements Discovery Process.

IAG's Research and Development team continuously evaluate the latest practices in the Requirements Definiiton and Management space. Methods that have merit are tested and evaluated by our practicing consultants.  Before being widely applied by out Consulting Team, work guidelines, procedures and templates are developed and , templates and and

s is a standardized yet flexible approach used consistently on our engagements. The methodology is characterized as a practical application of software engineering best practices. The methodology is an evolution and derivation of a variety of practices and methods such as Event Process modeling from Yourdon, DeMarco, McMenamin & Palmer; Data Modeling from Bachman, Chen and Codd; Information Engineering from Martin; Object Oriented Analysis from Rumbaugh, Booch, and others; Use-case Scenarios from Jacobson; and JAD from Crawford. The methodology is also designed to be flexible enough to accommodate the practical aspects of today's real projects. It has also been developed to conform to many of the defacto and established standards such as those from IEEE, the Software Engineering Institute's Capability Maturity Model, PMI's Project Management Body of Knowledge, and the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge in development by the IIBA.

The methodology, its practices, techniques, and deliverables are all documented in a variety of materials including but not limited to training manuals sold to our clients, published books, reference guides, internal procedures manuals, internal facilitator and instructor guides, and internal consultant certification programs