Effective Requirement Process

I waited a month before replying to a question on one of Tom Gilb's forums. This is only partly because I wanted to avoid doing the student's assignment. The main reason was so that I could canvass opinions on LinkedIn's new(ish) Answers facility. Interesting results from LinkedIn were:

1. A general distrust of KPIs (Key Performance Indicators)
2. The absence of any reference to possible KPIs, however flawed or dangerous
3. A belief in the impossibility of measuring the effectiveness of requirement processes
4. A fairly low number of responses (7). Is that because it's a hard question or an uninteresting one, I wonder.

I may yet re-open the question with my own thoughts included as clarification. For the moment I must leave a little time for others to comment on my Gilb post.

LinkedIn Answers

Rob Gourdie is kind enough to publish on his blog my answer to a question of his on LinkedIn. See http://robgourdie.blogspot.com/2007/03/need-for-residual-risk-in-projects.html

Another answer of mine on knowledge management was picked as best response by Peter Nguyen: http://www.linkedin.com/answers/career-education/career-development/CAR_CRD/31514-2896748

See also my answer at http://www.linkedin.com/answers/business-operations/project-management/OPS_PRJ/29527-174352

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