Broadcast Date: On Demand
Duration: One hour
 
Speakers:
Ron Zorn, Independent Consultant, Zorn Industries
Andy Gurd, Go-to-Market Manager, IBM Rational Software
Masa Hirvonen, Integration and Analysis, Honda Aircraft Company, Inc.
Richard Cormier, Cormier Consulting
Russell Baldridge, Moderator, CM Crossroads
Staying competitive in today's business environment requires agility. The ability to stay focused when your customer's requirement change is a challenge — particularly when you are trying to keep on top of costs and schedules. Learn how you can master this skill at the IBM Rational® Keeping Control of Costs and schedules When Requirements Change audio broadcast. Hosted in an on demand audio format with four IBM customers offering their experience via discussion and debate, you'll get insights about creating a strong change control and requirement culture, including:
- Implementing a ‘virtual’ change control
board for globally distributed stakeholders
- Creating a specific workflow for change control in your organization - what the stage gates and how stakeholders are involved in your workflow
- Linking the requirements management process with software change and configuration management into your development process
Get the help you need to implement a requirements engineering process at the Keeping Control of Costs and Schedules When Requirements Change audio broadcast, where we'll offer answers to:
- Challenges managing change and requirements
- Managing change with distributed teams
- Deciding what the process management change process should be
Join a panel of experienced systems development practitioners as they discuss the challenge of managing change in their industries and projects, with points of view from:
- Ron Zorn, Independent Consultant, Zorn Industries
- Masa Hirvonen, Group Lead, Systems engineering, Integration and Analysis, Honda Aircraft Company, Inc
- Richard Cormier, Cormier Consulting
- Andy Gurd, Go-to-Market Manager, IBM Rational Software
Topics will include managing change requests with distributed teams, implementing a review workflow, and analyzing the impact of these changes on costs, resources and schedules. The panel will consider their own experiences and share best practices, offering insights about a requirements engineering process. Register for the Keeping Control of Costs and Schedules When Requirements Change for an on demand session! About the Presenters:
Ron Zorn, Independent Consultant,
Zorn Industries
Ron Zorn has over 15 years experience in the software configuration management (SCM) field. He has introduced, customized, standardized and automated tools for SCM, requirements management and data and process management into over a dozen companies, working with team sizes ranging from three to five thousand, in domains from stereo speakers to guided missiles. Ron’s viewpoint is “make the tool fit your process, not the other way around”. For the last three years, he has been a published Member of the Association for Configuration and Data Management (ACDM) and is currently on the authoring team rewriting the geia649b CM/DM Standard for the Government Electronics and Information Technology Association (GEIA).
Masa Hirvonen, Group Lead, Systems engineering, Integration and Analysis,
Honda Aircraft Company, Inc.
Currently, Masa Hirvonen is the group lead for three separate areas at Honda Aircraft Company, Inc. (HACI): Systems Engineering; Definition and development of the test facilities: Avionics and Electrical Laboratories and Advanced Systems Integration Test Facility (ASITF), and the Control System Design and Analysis (e.g. Automatic Flight Control System control law development and simulation).
HACI uses IBM DOORS requirements capture tool for capturing avionic and electrical system and sub-system level requirements as well as component level requirements. The basic systems engineering development also includes tools and processes to handle Issue Reports (a.k.a. problem reports), which is based on IBM Rational ClearQuest at HACI.
Richard Cormier,
Cormier Consulting
Richard Cormier, president of his own consulting company, has more than thirty-five years of experience in the IT industry, as a Quality Assurance Manager, Technical Project Manager and Requirements Management Consultant with multiple Health Care, Communications, Government, Transportation, Insurance, Financial companies. Having been exposed to many areas of IT throughout his career Richard’s primary focus over the past several years has been centered on managing, developing, and implementing the necessary methodologies and processes to insure that all business and software requirements were properly managed, tested and installed throughout the SDLC. He recently completed a successful implementation and integration of DOORS, Change, System Architect and Quality Center to support a SAP implementation at Toyota Financial Services. He also received a DOORS best presentation award at the 2006 Telelogic User Conference for his presentation on “Implementation of the Requirements Management Process”.
Andy Gurd,
Go-to-Market Manager, IBM Rational Software
Andy Gurd is responsible for the marketing strategy for IBM Rational's requirements engineering solutions for the development of complex products and systems. Prior to acquisition by IBM, Andy held a number of roles at Telelogic, over a ten year period, ranging from consultancy and training on systems modeling tools and techniques, to product management and product marketing for modeling, product portfolio management and requirements management solutions. Prior to moving into the application lifecycle management tools market, Andy worked as a systems engineer for a global systems integrator.
About the Sponsor:
IBM is the world's largest information technology company, with 80 years of leadership in helping clients innovate. Drawing on a breath of capabilities and best practices from across IBM and our extensive partner ecosystem, we offer clients within every industry, a wide range of services, solutions and technologies that can help them improve productivity, respond rapidly to the needs of their business and reduce development and operational costs.
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