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Since lack of knowledge and skills is a major contributor to poor requirements, training is a key element to improving requirements for a project and in implementing a workable requirements process. Good requirements are the only route to faster, better, and cheaper products. Several years ago, NOAA faced project cancellation because of a set of 22,000 requirements to purchase off-the-shelf hardware and software plus some software development. They took our one-day training and over the next three months, a group of eight people completely rewrote their specification. The resulting specification contained only 1,000 requirements and all but a dozen were good, verifiable, clear requirements. They are now deploying their system. CAI is working to improve the requirement-related skills of people in many different organizations. Since 1990, we have offered requirements-related training to government and industry organizations that involve the development of systems, hardware, and software. Government and industry have used our training to improve their project management processes and skills, to obtain higher levels of the Capability Maturity Model (CMM), and in support of ISO 9000. They have used our training in support of all programs, for individual projects, and for agency/corporate-level strategic planning.
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