Topics covered include:

• Economic Motivation

• About Requirements...
  • Why are requirements so important?
  • Where do requirements come from?
  • Why are requirements so hard to write?
  • Identifying and Eliminating Ambiguity
  • Alternative Techniques for Expressing Requirements
  • Requirements Exercise
  • Managing Changes to Requirements

• Estimates, Targets, Commitments, Schedules
  • Why most schedules are wrong
  • Estimating Best Practices
  • Estimating Exercise
  • Scheduling Best Practices
  • Scheduling Exercise

• Summary

This informal, interactive workshop is based, in part, on my book: Software Verification and Validation for Practitioners and Managers, 2nd ed