The anticipated release of Enfocus Requirements Suite™, the robust, interactive requirements tool by Enfocus Solutions Inc., is here. Business analysts, project managers and IT professionals can start exploring the resources, horsepower, and stakeholder input capabilities of this revolutionary new service.

What do you document and how much should you document? This question is often present in software development projects and even more now with Agile approaches. This article presents a template for managing software requirements and software problems. This templates have been validated within the industry in various parts of the world.

User Experience is the newish general term we give to user research, user interface design, usability engineering, and a few other sub-specialties. In the past UX work fell to a select few specialized roles – roles that didn’t fit well in many processes, especially agile processes. Over the last decade there’s been an evolution towards more whole-team thinking and a wealth of new practices that involve everyone in UX design. The session will help developers and others understand what UX is and isn’t, how UX practice fits into agile process …

There are different popular models for collaborative software requirements definition. In this article, Gojko Adzic, the author of Specification by Example, discusses some of them. Big specification workshops, like Product Backlog Refinement (PBR) workshops, with the entire team allows building a shared understanding and produce a set of examples that illustrate a feature. Smaller workshops that involve one developer, one tester, and one business analyst are called Three Amigos meeting. Teams where business users and stakeholders sit close by (and are readily available to answer questions) have great results with …

Ryma Technology Solutions Inc. announced the release of FeaturePlan 2012, the latest version of their industry-leading product management software solution. Designed to improve product managers’ efficiency and effectiveness, FeaturePlan 2012 serves as a central knowledge base that stores all product-related information and streamlines product management processes.

Blueprint announced the completion of a growth capital round of funding totaling $15.9 million. This round was led by a new investor – Tandem Expansion Fund, with the participation of existing investors from BDC IT Venture Fund, Walsingham Partners Fund, and several private investors. The money raised will be used to accelerate Blueprint’s growth by expanding sales, marketing and channel partner presence and capacity in USA, Europe and Asia Pacific.

This video provides a walkthrough of the tasks the Business Analyst will perform along a standard project.