Tom DeMarco

Peter Hruschka

Tim Lister

Steve McMenamin

John Palmer

James Robertson

Suzanne Robertson

Suzanne Robertson is co-author of Mastering the Requirements Process (Addison-Wesley 1999) a book that provides guidance on finding requirements and writing them so that they can be understood by all the stakeholders. She has more than 30 years experience in systems specification and building. Her courses on requirements, systems analysis, design and problem solving are well known for their innovative workshops and business games.
   Suzanne has varied experience as a manager, programmer, analyst, and designer. She has consulted, done research and taught in Europe, Australia, the Far East and the United States. Current work includes research and consulting on stakeholdersÕ rights and responsibilities, the specification and reuse of requirements and techniques for assessing requirements specifications. The product of this research is Volere, a complete requirements process and template for assessing requirements quality, and for specifying business requirements.
   Bringing together work on requirements, systems modelling, and project management and inspired by Tom De MarcoÕs novel The Deadline Suzanne, with risk management consultant Susannah Finzi, has introduced a new seminar, Managing the Deadline: a project management masterclass.
    In 1983, in partnership with Tom De Marco, Tim Lister, Steve McMenamin, John Palmer and James Robertson, Suzanne founded the Atlantic Systems Guild. The Guild is a New York, London, and (with the addition of Peter Hruschka) Aachen, based think-tank that researches system development techniques. Guild principals have written numerous books and seminars that are among the most successful in software development history. Suzanne and her husband James Robertson are co-authors of Complete Systems Analysis: the Workbook, the Textbook, the Answers (Dorset House, 1994), a text and case study that teaches the craft of systems analysis. Apart from her books, Suzanne is author of many papers on systems engineering. She is a member of IEEE and the Australian Computer and the British Computer SocietyÕs Requirements and Reuse Groups. Other interests include a passion for the opera, cooking, skiing and finding out about curious things.

Coming events

Articles:

Requirements Trawling - techniques for discovering requirements

Project Sociology: Identifying and involving the stakeholders (pdf file)

Growing Internal Consultants

Early Start to Testing

Requirements Patterns via Events/Use Cases

Reusing the Products of Analysis

Requirements Driven Project Planning

What is the Stakeholders' Bargain with the Project?

Requirements Testing - Creatingan Effective Feedback Loop

Seminars:

Managing the Deadline

Mastering the Requirements Process

Modern Systems Analysis

 

 

 

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