Practicing Requirments Based Devlopment

About This Webcast:

Software engineering authority Fred Brooks declares, "the most important function that software builders do for their clients is the iterative extraction and refinement of the product requirements." Experienced software engineers and project managers recognize that evolving requirements, like evolving source code, is a natural part of modern software development. The challenge for software development teams is to keep the source code current with changing requirements. Requirements based development is an approach for keeping development synchronized with evolving and emerging requirements. The ability to manage requirements and source code in an integrated fashion is central to requirements based development.

SCM consultant and CM Crossroads columnist Michael Sayko will describe an approach for implementing requirements based development. Then MKS Application Engineer Ambrose Chiu will demonstrate how MKS Integrity Suite successfully couples requirements management with software configuration management. Learn how MKS Integrity Suite effectively facilitates requirements based development for software projects of all sizes and complexity.

Michael Sayko is a software configuration management consultant based in Austin, Texas. He is experienced with the practice of software configuration management from having served as a configuration manager on large, fast-paced software projects. You can reach Michael by email at mss@acm.org.

Steven Miller a skilled information technology professional with experience in technical consulting, training, client services and operations. Steven works with customers to identify methods where MKS tools can provide visibility, controls, and automation for their current business and development processes. As an Application Engineer he helps organizations recognize the need for application lifecycle and change management tools, and aids in the transition and implementation processes.  By demonstrating both the achievable benefits and increased functionality of using such tools, he helps development teams and their managers implement solutions that successfully increase development productivity, efficiency, and quality, while reducing costs..