1. S D Compliance Automation, Inc 1 Larry Fellows Compliance Automation, Inc. When Any Road Won’t Do… Project Scope Points the Way

2. S D Compliance Automation, Inc 2 Standish Group Survey - 1995 33% Cancelled (Cost $81B) 17% On Time & On Budget 50% Challenged (Cost $59B) Average Challenged Project: 189% Over Budget 222% Behind Schedule Only 61% of originally specified features delivered.

3. S D Compliance Automation, Inc 3 Standish Group Survey - 2002 15% Cancelled (Cost $81B) 34% On Time & On Budget 51% Challenged (Cost $59B)

4. S D Compliance Automation, Inc 4 A Winning Product On Time On Budget Required Functions Right Quality

5. S D Compliance Automation, Inc 5 1 – Define the NEED

6. S D Compliance Automation, Inc 6 2 – Identify the Stakeholders Engineering Designers Software Logistics Operations Testing Manufacturing Service System Engineering Marketing Customer Reliability Developers

7. S D Compliance Automation, Inc 7 Stakeholder Knowledge Common Knowledge Shared Knowledge Unique Knowledge

8. S D Compliance Automation, Inc 8 Create Common Vision Common Knowledge Shared Knowledge Unique Knowledge

9. S D Compliance Automation, Inc 9 3 – Recognize the Drivers Existing systems & processes User expectations Regulations Standards Higher Level Requirements Specification Cost Schedule

10. S D Compliance Automation, Inc 10 4 – Gather Operational Concepts

11. S D Compliance Automation, Inc 11 5 – Define External Interfaces Your System database keyboard display Power other software test hardware Physical other hardware command status command & data

12. S D Compliance Automation, Inc 12 No Surprises People who write bad requirements should not be surprised when they get bad products Ivy Hooks But they always are.