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Chaos is Bunk (allegedly)

Sometimes those queasy feelings of something not being at all right are entirely justified. Only, you don’t find out until years afterwards.

According to J. Laurenz Eveleens and Chris Verhoef writing in the Jan/Feb 2010 issue of IEEE Software, the much-quoted Chaos reports are seriously (for which read fatally) flawed.

Back in 1994, Standish created a sensation by claiming that only a “shocking” 16% of projects were successful, 53% were “challenged”, and an astounding 31% failed outright.

Further, Standish presented a small table of figures which purported to demonstrate beyond doubt that the overwhelming reasons for project failure were down to poor project management, and in particular to lack of proper attention to requirements.

The figures arrived at just the right moment for would-be vendors of Requirements Management tools to set out their wares. They quoted Standish to “prove” that SOMETHING HAD TO BE DONE to improve requirements, and that something was their tool. It was far too convenient to question. ...

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Making Your Requirements Knowledge Count: Working in RE - RESG Event

University of Westminster, 2-4 pm, 11 November 2009

Ljerka Beus-Dukic welcomed everyone to this mainly-for-students event; it was good to see several non-student visitors too. The event was in two equal parts. First the four speakers each gave a short talk on how they used requirements in industry or commerce. Then the speakers formed a panel and answered questions from students about practice “in the real world”. ...

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Featured Talk:

'Requirements Engineering is not engineering!' - Ian Alexander. From the annual RESG summer party 2009.

Latest RESG News:

- Places available on the RESG Goals Day! This is a major event aimed at providing requirements engineers and business analysts with vital expertise. The one-day event combines a tutorial on the essentials of goal modelling with a seminar of talks on how to use goals from leading experts in industry and research. Read more and sign up here! -- 26th January 2009

- Win a book! A copy of Tom Gilb’s book ‘Competitive Engineering’ will be awarded for the best contribution to RQ54 - Click here to contribute -- 24th January 2009

- The latest newsletter, RQ53, is now out! Head to the newsletter section of our website for the latest requirements focused news, events, articles and sources -- 21st January 2009

Forthcoming RESG Events

The RESG Goals Day
Wednesday 24th March 2010 - University of Westminster
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Postgraduate Workshop
Spring 2010 - Imperial College London
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Mastering the Requirements Process (IRMUK)
23-25 February 2010, 13-15 September 2010 - London
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26-27 April 2010 - London
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