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  As part of an IBM Rational training on Requirements Management which I regularly deliver at Info Support, is an exercise aimed at prioritizing a set of requirements. In that exercise, students are asked to prioritize a set of requirements giving a set of requirements attributes (all valued High, Medium or Low):Customer ...

I've noticed many times that projectmanagers find themselves the keepers of the deadline. Everything has to go to reach the golden target, the deadline. And mind you, there is nothing wrong with trying to get things done before the deadline. What is wrong however, is the ownership of the deadline. To me, the projectmanager does not have a ...

I have found an interesting website http://www.clarrus.com/resources.htm which contains useful information about: Project Management Tips QA, Test, CM Tips Analysis, Design Tips Business Tips People Tips Process Tips Recommended Books Articles There is loads of information present, which will help to develop new approaches / ...

RUP itself has many different roles (Project manager, System Analyst, Software Architect, Technical Writer). So what's the use of having so many roles, while you know that you surely will not easily have enough people in your team to have a 1-1 relation. Most teams I come across are 6-15 people. According to the Standish Group it is best to ...

RUP itself has some clear milestones, for each phase (Inception, Elaboration, Construction, Transition). Trouble is that you usually can't just say: I've saved the last document of Inception, now we are ready for Elaboration. Reaching a milestone is something which doesn't happen all of the sudden. And this means that closing out a ...

While surfing the internet, looking for information about project measurement and iteration review criteria, I found the following website. I can strongly recommend this site for Process Engineers, as it contains (and will contain) many interesting articles. The following introduction is copied from the website: The primary goal is to offer a ...

Most information shown, created by the Standish Group, about the core elements of project success / failure base themselves on the information dating from 1994. The Standish Group has renewed their Chaos top 10, as can be downloaded here. In short it contains the following: 1. CHAOS TOP 10 Executive Support User ...

FMI Solutions has published an on-line 'training' on how to integratie RUP and PRINCE2. It will help your organization to find its own way. View the training here.

Many organizations use PRINCE2 at their project management level. Introducing RUP means introducing an overlay in process description. At the website of IBM, the following interesting (and practical) whitepaper became available. Introducing the loose coupling allows for the current organization to keep working the way it used to be (that is, ...

I moved my new blog to http://hij2mc.wordpress.com/.(hij2mc = how I jump to my conclusions, I continue the name of the blog) I used Blogger some time but changed to Wordpress as it offers better ways to organize your content. The RSS Feed for my blog is: https://hij2mc.wordpress.com/feed On some readers, like RSS Bandit, you have to uncheck ...