SPaMCAST 47 - Goldsmith, REAL Requirements, Your Career

Show Forty Seven begins another two part interview this one with Robin Goldsmith on REAL requirements. Requirements have been a vexing problem for Information Technology since dirt was young. Robin presents a structure for addressing the issue. Part two will be included in SPaMCAST 49. Robin is the president of Go Pro Management. Go Pro Management, Inc. is a consultancy that works directly with and trains professionals in business engineering, requirements analysis, software acquisition, project management, quality and testing. Mr Goldsmith was previously a developer, systems programmer/DBA/QA, and project leader with the City of Cleveland, leading financial institutions, and a "Big 4" consulting firm. He holds degrees from Kenyon College, A.B.; Pennsylvania State University, M.S. in Psychology; Suffolk University, J.D.; Boston University, LL.M. in Tax Law. Robin is the author of the Artech House book, Discovering REAL Business Requirements for Software Project Success, and numerous articles in prominent periodicals, and frequent featured speaker at leading professional conferences.Contact information: Web Site: http://www.gopromanagement.comEmail: [email protected]: (781) 444-5753Check out SPaMCAST's Facebook page and get involved!!!! http://tinyurl.com/62z5elThe essay is titled "Who"s Career Is It Anyway?" The essay challenges you to think of yourself as your own brand and to take control of maintaining your brand and career.There are a number of ways to share your thoughts with SPaMCAST: • Email SPaMCAST at [email protected]• Voice messages can be left at 1-206-888-6111• Twitter - www.twitter.com/tcagley• BLOG – www.tcagley.wordpress.com• FACEBOOK!!!! Software Process and Measurement http://tinyurl.com/62z5elNext Software Process and Measurement Cast: The next Software Process and Measurement Cast will feature Part Two of the interview with Ellen Gottesdiener on agile requirements, facilitation and other topics! Part One in SPaMCAST 46 was great, filled with new ideas on requirements and I think 48 will even be more important.