News/Events
Recent Presentations
"Getting Started on the Right Foot: Developing Requirements for Constellation’s Next Generation Space Suit"
Presented by Lou Wheatcraft and Terry Hill, NASA – Johnson Space Center
NASA PM Challenge Galveston, TX
Feb 10, 2009
Lou spoke about the benefits from a having a good requirement development and management process in place so projects can avoid the consequences of not doing so and ending up with a poor set of requirements. Lou stressed the need for organizations to implement a continuous requirement validation process as a best practice that will result in significantly better requirements. By implementing these best practices, a project's risks are reduced, helping them to deliver a winning product - the first time.
Terry Hill, the NASA Engineering Project Manager and Constellation EVA System Suit Element Deputy Lead at NASA, Johnson Space Center then spoke about how his team followed Requirements Experts’s advice and not only implemented a continuous requirement validation process but contracted with Requirements Experts to mentor his engineering team during and after the requirements were developed and baselined. The results of doing this was a reduction in requirement defects indentified by reviewer comments during the Suit System Requirement Review (SRR) by an order of magnitude as compared to the requirement defects identified during the parent system’s SRR. Both NASA management and potential bidders for the development of the suit publicly recognized the Suit Element requirement development team for their superior efforts by stating that the requirements were "... the most comprehensive and of the highest quality they ever remember seeing."
Upcoming Events
March 22-25, 2010
SEPG 2010 North America Conference. Savannah, Georgia
http://www.sei.cmu.edu/sepg/na/2010/
Ivy Hooks and Cheryl Hill will be representing ReqExperts at the 2010 Software Engineering Process Group (SEPG) conference. This conference is an ideal event for people interested in systems, software and services process improvements. Please come by our booth (#206) to share ideas about requirements, get some pointers or just visit!!
April 26–29, 2010
22nd Annual Systems & Software Technology Conference (SSTC), Salt Lake City, Utah
Ivy Hooks will be speaking at this conference with the topic being Why Johnny Still Can’t Write Requirements – Requirements from 1990-2010. If you are at the SSTC, I recommend you attend Ivy’s talk which is always enlightening as well as entertaining!! The talk is scheduled for Monday, April 26th, 2:30 PM on the Lessons Shared Track.
July 12 – 15, 2010
20th Anniversary International INCOSE Symposium, Chicago, Illinois
http://www.incose.org/
Once again, we look forward to attending the INCOSE symposium. While Lou Wheatcraft attends to our booth greeting old friends and customers and meeting new ones, Ivy will be busy conducting two half-day tutorials.
Tutorial 445: Why Johnny STILL Can’t Write Requirements – and what to do about it
Tutorial 446: Advanced: Writing and Managing Interface Requirements
We are also very excited that two of Lou Wheatcraft’s articles have been accepted by INCOSE as well. These papers are “Getting Started on the Right Foot – Developing Requirements for Constellation’s Next Generation Space Suit”, which is the paper version of the presentation Terry Hill and Lou made at PM Challenge and “Everything you wanted to know about interfaces, but were afraid to ask”. The paper complements Ivy’s tutorial on interfaces.
Speeches/Presentations
"Writing Good Requirements" tutorial presented by Lou Wheatcraft
April 2008
INCOSE Northstar Chapter, Minneapolis, MN
"Writing Good Requirements" presented by Lou Wheatcraft
February 2008
NASA PM Challenge, Daytona Beach, FL
"Writing Good Requirements" tutorial presented by Bob Lee
September 2007
INCOSE Union of South Africa Chapter, Johannesburg
"Writing Good Requirements" presented by Ivy Hooks
September 2007
INCOSE Alamo Chapter, San Antonio, TX
"Planning Your IT Needs" presented by Ivy Hooks
April 2007
TAB Business Owners Seminar, San Antonio, TX
"Why it shouldn't be so hard to write a system specification" presented by Ivy Hooks
February 2007
NASA PM Challenge 08, Galveston, TX
"Requirement Engineering – An Oxymoron?" presented by Ivy Hooks
September 2006
RE 06 (International Conference), Minneapolis, MN
"How to get people to tell you what they want" presented by Ivy Hooks
August 2006
Alamo PMI Chapter, San Antonio, TX
"PM Managers' Role in Requirement Management" presented by Ivy Hooks
March 2006
NASA PM Challenge, Galveston, TX
"Better Baselines" panel discussion with Ivy Hooks
March 2006
NASA PM Challenge, Galveston, TX
"Knowing What You Want" presented by Ivy Hooks
November 2005
TAB Business Owners Seminar Series, San Antonio, TX
"Three Tools for the System Engineer's Tool Kit" presented by Ivy Hooks
October 2005
INCOSE Alamo Chapter, San Antonio, TX
"PM Role in Requirement Management" presented by Ivy Hooks
June 2005
PDS (Software arm of PMI) (International Conference), San Francisco, CA
"Writing Defect-Free Requirements in Government and Industry" tutorial presented by Ivy Hooks
June 2005
INCOSE Symposium 05 (International Conference), Rochester, NY
"Developing Requirements for Technology-Driven Products" presented by Lou Wheatcraft
June 2005
INCOSE Symposium 05 (International Conference), Rochester, NY
"Writing Defect-Free Requirements" presented by Ivy Hooks
May 2005
PSQT West (International Conference), Las Vegas, NV
"Writing Good Requirements" tutorial presented by Ivy Hooks
May 2005
INCOSE Enchantment Chapter, Albuquerque, NM
"Writing Defect-Free Requirements"
April 2005
Systems and Software Technology Conference (SSTC), Salt Lake City, Utah
