IEEE Computer Society in Bloomington, IN, US (United States)

Dorothy Graham is the moving force behind Grove Consultants. Grove is a UK company that provides consultancy, training and inspiration in software testing, test automation and Inspection. Alistair Cockburn's Humans and Technology, Salt Lake City, UT. Web site: http://members.aol.com/acockburn/ . 

The Agile Methods arose in the second half of the 1990's, and Addison Wesley published their seminal book, Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change, by Kent Beck, in 2000. I come to this advice from consulting and writing in another area, software project risk management. 

Building and maintaining software is a risky business. Since software permeates and controls so much of the present-day enterprise (and its products), lateness, cost excess and failure to perform can have far-reaching consequences. A common response to such risk is to ignore it entirely. 

The new seminar Managing the Deadline has spawned several resources. The Project Management Survey asks project managers to recount some of their management problems (anonymously if you wish). The results and dicussion are to be found in the Project Management Scenarios section. 

The Volere Requirements Specification Template is available in several formats. The template is intended to be used as the foundation of your own requirements specifications. Downloadable pdf and Word versions are at our Volere sister site.