Volere (Voh-lair-ray) the Italian verb to want, or to wish.

This is the home of the Volere Requirements Specification Template and other requirements and business analysis resources. Volere is the umbrella that covers the collection of requirements templates, processes, books, consulting and training. Since its inception, Volere has been used by thousands of organizations around the world. Read what some of them have to say.

We offer courses including the flagship Mastering the Requirements Process, specification and requirements reviews, requirements process design, and consulting to make you better at requirements and business analysis.

Available downloads are the Volere Requirements Specification Template, Stakeholder Analysis, Prioritisation Analysis and the Atomic Requirement Template, or as it is more popularly known, the Snow Card. Most content is free with registration. 

The Volere process provides a well-defined structure and guides as to which requirements content is appropriate for you. The process and template work with existing tools (Caliber, DOORS, Requisite, IRqA, etc.) and methods including agile methods. Volere is applicable to modeling techniques such as UML, business process, data and state models. The process is based on experience from worldwide business analysis projects, and is continually improved with input from our users.

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We provide business analysts, requirements engineers,systems analysts, project managers and associated roles with resources, requirements reviews,requirements process design, and consulting.

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Our innovative training courses, including the flagship Mastering the Requirements Process, have improved the accuracy and relevancy of requirements gathering for our varied clients in many countries.

news and updates
  August '10arrow • Mastering the Requirements Process is now available as a Kindle edition.

  July '10arrow • City University, London have announced their Masters in Innovation, Creativity and Leadership course.
• The Chartered Institute of Marketing is now teaching product managers about the Volere trawling techniques.

  June '10arrow • Mastering Business Analysis has been endorsed by the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA™)
• A reminder of the Business Analysis 2010 conference in London, September 27-29. James & Suzanne Robertson are giving two workshops.

  May '10arrow • Adrenaline Junkies and Template Zombies is now available as a Kindle book at a bargain price to read on your iPad or Kindle.

  April '10arrow • A short article on Pecha Kucha presentations by James Robertson
• Adrenaline Junkies and Template Zombies has been translated and is now available in Japanese and Korean.
• The new Mastering Business Analysis seminar will have its premier in London April 26-27 with IRM UK. This course connects the Volere requirements techniques to business analysis and modelling both at project and enterprise level.
• Suzanne Robertson has written about Simplicity and Requirements at the Atlantic Systems Guild.

  March '10arrow • We are pleased to release version 15 of the Volere Requirements Specification Template.
• Stephen Mellor, real time systems analysis and executable models guru, shows the relationship between the development process and the cost of defects in the requirements: UML and the Cost of Defects
• Desiree Purvis had added her experiences to the Volere Case Studies.

  February '10arrow • Adrenaline Junkies and Template Zombies - Understanding Patterns of Project Behavior has now been published in Russian by Symbol-Plus Publishing.
• The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea turned down a government grant, and chose to develop its own child protection IT system using Volere techniques. They have won a national e-government excellence award for this system.

  January '10arrow • Requirements-Led Project Management is now available in paperback.
• Video interview on Requirements with Suzanne Robertson by Robert de Ruiter of Software Magazine in the Netherlands

  December '09arrow • The sixth Volere article, this one about Atomic Requirements, is now available.

  November '09arrow • Talk to other Volere users on the Volere Requirements LinkedIn Group.
• Volere instructor James Archer has won Business Analyst of the Year award at 2009 UK IT Industry Awards
• Listen to part 2 of Suzanne Robertson's Interview on Requirements Traceability with Tom Cagley of Software Process and Measurement Podcast (SPAMCAST).  http://www.spamcast.net

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Volere Events

flag London, September 13-15. Suzanne Robertson teaches Mastering the Requirements Process. For more information on this popular course, contact IRM UK.

flagBrussels, September 23,24. Suzanne Robertson teaches the advanced Mastering the Requirements Process part 2. Please contact IT Works for details.

flag London, September 27. James & Suzanne Robertson present their tutorial How Business Analysts can be Innovative when Discovering Requirements. Details and registration at Business Analysis Conference Europe 2010. 

flag London, September 27. Suzanne Robertson and Stephen Mellor give a tutorial Counting Bricks not Clouds: how business analysis provides the foundation for project management. Details and registration at Business Analysis Conference Europe 2010. 

flag BA Conference September 27-29, 2010. Suzanne Robertson gives a talk entitled Behaviour Patterns that Help and Hinder Business Analysts. Details at BA 2010.

flag  Brussels, October 5-7. James Robertson teaches Mastering the Requirements Process. Please contact IT Works for details.

flag Tromsø, October 6-8. Suzanne Robertson teaches Mastering the Requirements Process. For more information please contact Den Norske Dataforeningen

flagThe Netherlands, October 18,19, Suzanne Robertson presents Mastering the Requirements Process part 2 for Array Seminars.

flagThe Netherlands, October 20-22. James Robertson teaches Mastering the Requirements Process. For details and registration, please contact Array Seminars.

flag Rome, October 25-27. Suzanne Robertson teaches Mastering the Requirements Process. Contact Technology Transfer.

flag Rome, October 28-29. For the first time in Italy, Mastering Business Analysis. Contact Technology Transfer for details of this new course.  

flag  Brisbane OR Canberra, November 8-10. Mastering the Requirements Process Please contact Software Education for details and location.

flag Melbourne, November 8-10. Mastering the Requirements Process Please contact Software Education  for details and registration. 

flagMelbourne, November 11,12. Suzanne Robertson teaches Mastering the Requirements Process part 2. Contact Software Education for details of this advanced class. 

flagAuckland, November 15-17. Mastering the Requirements Process. For details please contact Software Education.

flagWellington, November 15-17. The ever popular Mastering the Requirements Process. For details please contact Software Education.  

flag Wellington, November 18,19. Suzanne Robertson teaches the advanced class Mastering the Requirements Process part 2. Contact Software Education for details.

flagSydney, November 22-24, Suzanne and James Robertson teach the popular Mastering the Requirements Process sponsored by Software Education.

flagSydney, November 25,26. Suzanne Robertson teaches Mastering the Requirements Process part 2. Contact Software Education Australia for details of this advanced class.