by iagadmin | January 14, 2010 | Business Analysis, Most Popular, RDM | 0 Comments

As a facilitator of Requirements Discovery Sessions, one of your primary skills is questioning. Here are the fifteen types of questions you should be using when you are facilitating a requirements discovery session on your projects. Type Explanati...

by iagadmin | November 14, 2011 | Agile, Most Popular | 0 Comments

The Challenge User stories that should be simple are frequently quite complex, written ambiguously, or have underlying needs that are hidden below the surface. Some should be broken up in to multiple stories. You may not know how best to write a u...

by iagadmin | August 8, 2011 | Business Analysis, Most Popular, RDM | 0 Comments

How mature is your organization’s requirements practices? Now you can find out! IAG Consulting has just launched a new (free) online assessment tool that will evaluate your requirements maturity based on 40 questions. The assessment is based on IA...

by iagadmin | August 22, 2011 | Business Analysis, Most Popular, RDM | 1 Comment

Requirements discovery is also often referred to as requirements elicitation, requirements gathering, requirements analysis, and requirements definition. We prefer to use the term because it's a little less high-brow, more meaningful, and more app...

by iagadmin | September 15, 2014 | Business Analysis, Most Popular, RDM | 0 Comments

This past week, The Project Management Institute released results of a study on one of our favorite topics – the importance of requirements.   PMI’s Pulse of the Profession® In-Depth Report on Requirements Management will hopefully serve as a wakeup call and provide...

by iagadmin | May 26, 2015 | Business Analysis, Most Popular, RDM | 0 Comments

Implementing new or refined processes, practices and rules for requirements and analysis in the project and development lifecycles can have significant organization benefits but can also be challenging and risks failure if not done effectively. The importance of...

by iagadmin | January 6, 2011 | Business Analysis, Business Architecture, Most Popular, PPM, RDM | 0 Comments

We've been in the business of helping companies improve their requirements definition and management (RDM) maturity for over 13 years. One thing I've noticed is that companies that have made significant improvement in RDM tend to believe they are ...