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Requirements Engineering and Business Analysis Resources

Enfocus Solutions

Offers a wealth of helpful information in a very active blog, a series of short videos on various requirements topics by Karl Wiegers, and information about their powerful new tool, Enfocus Requirements Suite, for requirements elicitation, specification, and management.

Modern Analyst

A community for business and systems analysts, with forums, blogs, books, training courses, and other resources.

Business Analyst Times

A resource for business analysts that provides articles, blogs, white papers, on-line training, and more.

Bridging the Gap

Laura Brandenburg's site to help new business analysts in their career. Includes a blog, books, training courses, and other helpful materials.

Seilevel

Seilevel specializes in providing requirements development services to software teams. They also have a series of requirements training videos.

The Requirements Networking Group

Articles, forums, blogs, and tool vendor links "for the professional development of people who capture and manage requirements for complex and critical systems development projects."

SearchSoftwareQuality.com

A resource with many articles and expert tips on requirements, testing, QA, project management, and other aspects of software quality.

INCOSE's Requirements Management Tools Survey

A feature comparison for some 35 commercially available requirements management tools

Atlantic Systems Guild's Requirements Management Tool Descriptions

Descriptions of many tools useful for dealing with requirements.

Requirements Development Tools:

Some of the products that can assist with requirements elicitation, analysis, modeling, simulation, and validation are Blueprint's Requirements Center, Serlio Software's CaseComplete, and Ravenflow's Raven.

NASA's Automated Requirements Measurement Tool

A simple tool to scan requirements documents for possible problems.

SmartCheck

From Smartware Technologies, this an automated document review tool that locates potential ambiguities in a requirements specification with the help of an extensive and customizable dictionary of terms that often lead to confusion and misunderstanding.

Project Management Resources

Method123

Method123 offers a comprehensive set of project management templates for project initiation, planning, execution, and closure.

Rothman Consulting Group

Johanna Rothman is a consultant, speaker, and author on software quality and project management. Her web site has a lot of her articles and other useful things.

Catalysis Group

Payson Hall of Catalysis Group is an outstanding speaker and expert project management consultant and trainer.

Mastersinprojectmanagement.com

This site provides a comprehensive list of universities that offer, well, master's degrees in project management.

 

Process and Quality Improvement Resources

Brad Appleton's Software Process Links

More than 100 links to process resources, models, tutorials, papers, and more.

Clarrus Consulting Group

Jim Brosseau, Principal of the Clarrus Consulting Group, offers a variety of high-quality process improvement consulting and training services.

Construx Software Builders

Steve McConnell's site; many useful checklists and other items available here.

Methods and Tools

Franco Martinig's on-line magazine "provides free practical knowledge and information on all topics of application development and software engineering" with some in-depth articles by various industry writers.

Result-Planning.com

This is the web site for Tom and Kai Gilb. Tom has been one of the leading thinkers and authors in the software industry for decades. This site provides a wealth of free downloads and thought-provoking ideas and practices.

Software Engineering Institute

The SEI provides information about various capability maturity models and many technical reports on a wide variety of software engineering and process improvement topics.

SR/Institute's Software Quality HotList

Links to many web sites with software quality information; "the first stop in technical development related to software testing and software quality issues."

The Software Quality Page

Another list of links to software quality resources.

StickyMinds.com

Brought to you by the publishers of Better Software magazine, StickyMinds.com is "the online resource for building better software." It provides a wide variety of resources for all aspects of software quality improvement.

Magazines

IEEE Software

A bimonthly, refereed periodical that has increased its emphasis on practicality in recent years. Well-written papers and columns include experience reports, how-to pieces, research studies, survey results, and opinion essays.

The Rational Edge

A monthly online magazine published by IBM. Not just a house organ, it features a wide variety of articles and columns on various software development and management topics, as well as articles on the use of IBM Rational's tools and processes.

Better Software

An excellent periodical that addresses many current topics on software quality and testing. Its high-quality articles are complemented by a great visual design.

CrossTalk

Subtitled "The Journal of Defense Software Engineering," it includes many useful articles on process improvement, even if you aren't in the defense software business. The articles are relatively short and easy to read.