Mario Moreira 
Date: May 24 - 12:00 PM
Track: Road to Quality
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Session Abstract: Requirements Engineering plays a fundamental role in the establishment and success of a project release.  Poor requirements engineering can lead to cancelled projects, significant project cost overruns, and inadequate release deliverables.  Often times, in the requirements engineering space, there is a focus on only requirements management. However, in order to manage requirements, requirements must be elicited, documented, and approved. These steps will lead to a more effective process of managing change to requirements and will enable the ability to trace to and from requirements.  

This session will walk the audience through important steps of Requirements Engineering and the details of each that may help you establish your own successful requirements engineering capability.  This includes eliciting requirements, documenting requirements, clarifying requirements, approving and baselining requirements, managing the requirements after approval, and establishing traceability from requirements thru test. 

In addition, this session will also introduce where Configuration Management (CM) plays a role in the requirements space and provides guidance for tailoring your requirements engineering capability to meet the demand of projects that have Distributed Development aspects and those projects that follow an Iterative Approach.  This can add and help in implementing a successful requirements engineering capability.

Speaker Bio: Mario Moreira is a Columnist for the Configuration Management Journal, a Director/Architect of Technology, an Author of CM publications, and has worked in the Application development field since 1986 with a primary focus on Release Management and Software Configuration Management.  He has experience with numerous SCM & development technologies and processes and has implemented SCM on over 100 applications/products, which include establishing global SCM infrastructures for distributed development. Mario has an MA in Mass Communication with an emphasis on communication technologies. Mario also brings years of Project Management, Software Quality Assurance, Requirement Engineering, Architecture, facilitation, and team building skills and experience. Mario is the author of the book “Software Configuration Management Implementation Roadmap.” which includes step-by-step guidance for implementing SCM at the organization, application, and project level.  Mario has also written over a 15 articles for CM Crossroads ranging from Release Management, Software Configuration Management, to Requirements Engineering. 
 
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