Live Webinar April 28th, 2015 – 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Featured Sponsor : Jama

VDC Research analyst Andre Girard (LinkedIn profile) will describe the market drivers for modern requirements management and explain why your organization is in peril if it maintains the status quo.

Andre will discuss how modern requirements management tools can dramatically improve delivery times, slash product line complexity and enhance communication across all players in the product ecosystem.

Embedded market companies face increasingly complex market pressures to accelerate the product-delivery process.

Their business goals require products to be delivered to customer satisfaction, with no defects, and faster than ever. And yet, 42% of embedded systems are behind schedule.

Among the many challenges to efficient, on-time product delivery are:

• Managing growing complexity in distributed organizations, within their products, and across a network of interrelated and interdependent products
• Maintaining consistent software security and quality standards
• Integrating the supply chain, formalizing acceptance benchmarks for code from supply chain partners
• Demonstrating compliance to process standards
• Verifying requirements traceability
• Inadequate and changing specifications
• Shifting priorities

These are competing, yet equally critical, imperatives.

Despite widespread knowledge of these mounting challenges, engineering organizations are not doing enough to adapt.

They need to make fundamental changes in the planning, management, and execution of system designs; they need new tools and methodologies to change outcomes because in-house and ad-hoc tools are inadequate for modern requirements management.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Planning Executing
Knowledge Areas: 5 – Scope

• 5.1 Plan Scope Management
• 5.2 Collect Requirements
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 5.5 Validate Scope
• 5.6 Control Scope

As a Category C ‘Self Directed Learning Activity’ remember to document your learning experience and its relationship to project management for your ‘PDU Audit Trail Folder’

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