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.

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.

• 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.
• Video interview on Requirements with Suzanne Robertson by Robert de Ruiter of Software Magazine in the Netherlands
• 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
• Volere case studies from Shamal Faily and Peter Doomen have been posted.
• Bartosz Andrzejewski has posted a new Polish translation of version 14 of the Volere Template.
• Happy third birthday to The Requirements Networking Group (RQNG) a valuable resource for Business Analysts and anyone involved with Requirements. Rob Beckman has posted an article summarising and categorising the 156 articles that have been posted on this site.
• 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.
Registration is open for Business Analysis Conference London 2009. James & Suzanne Robertson hold a tutorial at this conference.







Rome, April 12-14. Suzanne Robertson teaches
Trondheim, April 12-14. James Robertson teaches
Brussels, April 20-22. James Robertson teaches
London, April 26,27. James Robertson and James Archer present their new course
Auckland, May 19-21.
Sydney, May 31-June 1. Suzanne Robertson teaches
London, September 13-15. Suzanne Robertson teaches
Brussels, October 5-7. James Robertson teaches 
Rome, October 25-27. Suzanne Robertson teaches
Brisbane OR Canberra, November 8-10.