Ask yourself...
  • Do your business and IT managers seem to speak different languages when discussing the technology needs of your firm?
  • Do your IT initiatives ever stumble coming out of the starting blocks because no one knows how to provide the requirements that need to be satisfied?
  • Have you ever had developers working late into the evening rewriting software because the requirements were misinterpreted and a deadline was looming?
  • Do your managers have to guess about where they stand on providing requirements?
  • Correct these problems with Requirements-Online™ - our new on-demand service!

Did you know...
  • The National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST) estimates that the problem of defective software costs the US economy nearly $60 billion a year.  An examination of the report shows that it includes economic costs that do not necessarily translate into hard-dollar business decisions. Nonetheless, a significant portion of this estimate does reflect the financial waste directly experienced by firms.  Industry research has shown that the root cause of 25 - 40 percent of software defects is attributable to poor requirements.

We're all about getting business requirements right !

Facilitaire has recently introduced its first on-demand service that allows business managers and IT personnel to collaborate on the specification of business requirements.   

 Requirements-Online™ can revolutionize how your organization specifies business requirements. Our service facilitates the work of  your business and IT managers in understanding what firms need from new technology, and what IT organizations must deliver.

 Your Problems

Poorly specified business requirements jeopardize the success of IT initiatives and result in financial waste, rework, and lost business opportunities.  It is not uncommon for a large business to waste millions of dollars on technology that failed to meet its needs.

  Your Choices 

  What have been your choices? 

  • License an expensive Requirements Management system that does a good job of tracking requirements that are ready for being worked.  However, these systems don't help in determining the real details needed for success.

  • Hire expensive consultants to lead a few work sessions, then create a word processing document or two that summarize the discussions of your managers.

  • Give your business managers a generic word processing template, and hope for the best.

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     A New Solution

    Unlike the generic requirements templates often handed to business managers, Facilitaire overcomes many of the problems of the "blank page" by providing tools specifically designed for specifying business requirements.