TEAM Zarate Tarrani Notes From the Field

The Role of Business Case Analysis in Software Engineering is an excellent 81-slide PowerPoint presentation on an important topic. The presentation's author, Donald J. Reifer, wrote Making the Software Business Case, which Linda reviewed on Amazon on 22 September 2001.

In my 21 April entry I wrote about a book titled Requirements by Collaboration: Workshops for Defining Needs. This book synthesizes three approaches to collaboration, including joint application development (JAD). The PowerPoint presentation on JAD shows how one collaborative approach works. I've also have a collection of documents that support collaborative workshops. Collaborative requirements, like business case analysis, are keys to bridging the gap that exists between the technology focus of IT and the bottom line focus of the business. That gap needs to be bridged.