Happy New Year from Ravenflow!
We hope all of you have had a great start to 2011. We’ve certainly been busy here.
Last week, we announced a new RAVEN Cloud integration with HP’s Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) 11 platform. With RAVEN Cloud’s XPDL export capability, process models generated in RAVEN Cloud can now be imported directly into HP ALM 11 and other lifecycle tools that support the standard. RAVEN Cloud’s process diagrams can then serve as the basis for defining requirements, which is often one of the biggest challenges development teams face. (Click here to learn more.)
How do we know that?
Well, today, we announced preliminary results of our 2011 State of Requirements Management Survey, which we co-sponsored with the good folks at Jama Software. The survey attracted more than 800 participants – more than tripling our survey base from the 2008 edition.
What did we learn? You’ll have to attend our free webinar on Tuesday, January 25 at 10 a.m. PST to find out. But here are a few nuggets to whet your appetite:
• Almost 70 percent of respondents stated that customer input and feedback were essential to project success
• 75 percent of respondents cite unrealistic schedules or expectations as reasons for unsuccessful project outcomes
• An astounding 83 percent of respondents said they still use spreadsheets or documents to document and communicate requirements (clearly you all need to try RAVEN Cloud!)
• 30 percent of respondents spend at least 25 percent of their time dealing with changing requirements
We’ll give you the full scoop on the survey next Tuesday and we’ll even send you a copy of the report. But you have to register first. See you next Tuesday!
