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 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 organisations 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 businessanalysis.
Downloads include 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 modelling 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.
We provide business analysts, requirements engineers,systems analysts, project managers and associated roles with resources, requirements reviews,requirements process design, and consulting.
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.
Andrew Kendall, one of the Volere consultants is residing again in his native Australia; a new article by Tim Lister, reviews of 'Adventures of an IT Leader' and 'The Innovator's Toolkit'. A reminder of BA2009 coming up in September. We have added an atomic requirements spreadsheet stationery along with an example to the Volere template download.Registration is open for Business Analysis Conference London 2009. James & Suzanne Robertson hold a tutorial at this conference.
Two new articles Why is Innovation So Hard and How Now Brown Cow have been added to the Articles page. New book reviews. Adrenaline Junkies and Template Zombies written by the partners of the Atlantic Systems Guild has won the Jolt Product Excellence Award for best general book.
Suzanne Robertson's Article "Requirements—A Socio Technical Discipline" has been posted at RQNG.
IEEE Software magazine has selected "Provoking Creativity: Imagine What Your Requirements Could Be Like" by Neil Maiden, Alexis Gizikis and Suzanne Robertson as one of the Top Picks for influential articles over the 25 years of IEEE Software. Download pdf.
A partial translation of the Volere requirements template is now available in French. Thanks to Céline Décosse of Centre de Recherche Public Henri Tudor in Luxembourg for doing the translation. Click here to download.
the Volere Requirements Specification Template is now available in Spanish. Thanks to Paul Babic of Smartmatic for the translation. A pdf download is available here.
July 23, Suzanne Robertson will conduct a webinar in the IEEE Computer
Society / Lockheed Martin series. The subject is "Your Requirements for Managing Requirements".
James Robertson teaches 
Tromsø, September 7,8. Suzanne Robertson teaches 
September 15-17, London. 
Brussels. September 17. Suzanne Robertson will speak on "Mastering the Requirements Process" at the ICT Conference at the European Commission. The theme of the conference is Smart IT.
The Netherlands, October 13-15. Suzanne Robertson teaches Mastering the Requirements Process. For details and registration, please contact 
Reykjavik, October 19,20. James Robertson presents 
Rome, October 26-28. Suzanne Robertson teaches
Canberra, November 4-6. James Robertson teaches 
Wellington, November 9-11. Suzanne and James Robertson present