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May 19, 2004

Defining and Managing Requirements for Successful Product Development

Requirements definition and management is at the very core of building successful products. Requirements definition is the methodology that product managers use to translate customer needs and wants into product features and functions and is critical in facilitating the understanding between product management and engineering on what the product needs to look like in order to be successful in the marketplace. It serves as the first step in the development process and is used by engineering to develop the technical specifications. And yet, requirements definition is something that many product teams struggle to perfect. In this session, a panel of experts will relay their real-world experience and share their approaches to requirements management, providing you the insight to help perfect your requirements process.

The panelists will:
• Outline clear steps on how to identify and write requirements that work
• Identify some of the issues associated with requirements definition
• Discuss tools and techniques for managing requirements
• Discuss how requirements validation and how to ensure requirements have been met prior to launch
• Discuss real case studies identifying successful requirements definition as well as examples where the process went awry

The panelists are:

Mark Noneman, VP Enterprise Quality, Cadence
Charles Halligan, Chief Systems Engineer, Lockheed Martin
Eric Finch, Director, PRTM
Chris Holl, Director Software Best Practices, Intuit
Edward Stewart, Sr. Product Mgr with experience at Informatica, Knightsbridge Solutions and EDS

Our moderator is:

Jonathan Miller, CEO, TRUEreq