Why do almost 80 percent of e-commerce and other software development projects undertaken in the U.S. fail to be completed on time, or within budget, or to function as anticipated? What is the biggest ...

Purpose: This article studies and determines the benefits for technical communicators using narrative to compose and edit software requirements specifications. Specifically, this article is an ...

Building up relevant expertise in-house will make writing spec sheets for software easier, according to Siegfried Schmitt, principal consultant at PAREXEL. Q. We are a well-established pharmaceutical ...

Organizations ask users for their requirements, only to find that when enterprise software goes live, it doesn’t meet user expectations. It turns out that we have been doing this backward for years.

Five common errors in requirements analysis (and how to avoid them) Your email has been sent Problem 1 Customers don’t (really) know what they want Problem 2 Requirements change during the course of ...

Means-plus-function claiming has been disfavored (by and large) since at least 1994 when the Federal Circuit handed down its decision in In re Donaldson, where the Federal Circuit sitting en banc ...