RAVENFLOW'S REQUIREMENTS DEVELOPMENT SERIES TO ADDRESS BEST PRACTICES FOR IMPROVING REQUIREMENTS QUALITY
Gartner Research Director Matt Light to Lead Discussions on How Business and Development Teams Can Collaborate to Increase Requirements Accuracy
EMERYVILLE, Calif. - September 6, 2006 - Ravenflow, the only company delivering automated requirements validation for application development organizations, today announced that it will host a free, three city seminar series focused on improving requirements quality. The Requirements Development Summit 2006 will feature Gartner research director and application development expert, Matt Light, and make stops in New York, San Francisco and Chicago on September 14, September 21 and October 5, respectively.
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Requirements Development Summit series, Light, a 26-year IT industry veteran, will lead discussions on how business and development teams can collaborate to improve the quality of mission-critical applications by increasing requirements accuracy. Light will also identify problems and challenges with requirements development; explore innovative ways to increase collaboration to improve requirements quality; and review best proven practices for identifying errors, improving communication and streamlining the requirements development lifecycle. Session locations, dates and details are as follows:
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New York, NY |
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W Hotel, 541 Lexington Avenue |
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September 14, 8:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. ET
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San Francisco, CA |
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W Hotel, 181 3rd Street |
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September 21, 8:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. PT
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Chicago, IL |
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W Hotel, 172 West Adams Street |
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October 5, 8:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. CT
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"Too many organizations today suffer from missed application deadlines, costly errors and rework and failed development efforts," says Adam Frankl, marketing vice president of Ravenflow. "Ravenflow is thrilled that Matt Light of Gartner will be joining us in what we expect to be an insightful discussion of how business and IT can work together to improve requirements quality and, ultimately, software development success."
Matt Light's award-winning research focuses on best practices, technologies and governance for delivering applications to the business environment and for maintaining their evolution over time. His extensive experience in the IT industry spans project management, research and development roles for a number of organizations, including American Videotex Systems, Select Information Systems and the Federal Reserve Bank. To register, call 415-409-4299 or visit www.ravenflow.com/news/events.php for more information.
About Ravenflow
Ravenflow is revolutionizing the way that software requirements and business processes are developed and validated. Because requirements errors are the primary cause of project failure and budget and schedule overruns, enterprises need to detect and correct requirements errors early. Ravenflow's Requirements Authoring and Validation Environment (RAVEN) automatically generates visual models from plain English text. Customers across all business sectors, including ADP, Charles Schwab, Citco, Kaiser Permanente and the World Savings Bank are using RAVEN to deliver software developed for the most valid and precise business requirements.
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Press Contacts:
Adam Frankl
Vice President, Marketing, Ravenflow
adam.frankl@ravenflow.com
Robyn Fernsworth
Kickstart Consulting for Ravenflow
rfernsworth@kickstartconsulting.com
415-346-5260