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.

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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.

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February '10 • 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 '10 • 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 '09 • The sixth Volere article, this one about Atomic Requirements, is now available.

November '09 • 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

October '09 • Listen to part 1 of Suzanne Robertson's interview on Requirements Traceability with Tom Cagley of Software Process and Measurement Podcast (SPAMCAST)

September '09 • Trish Reader used Volere for a winning bid for the 2010 Winter Olympic Games.
• Volere case studies from Shamal Faily and Peter Doomen have been posted.

August '09 • Marcelo Antonio Corrêa has kindly produced a Brazilian Portuguese translation of version 14 of the template
• 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.

July '09 • 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.

June '09 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.

May '09 Two new articles Why is Innovation So Hard and How Now Brown Cow have been added to the Articles page. New book reviews.

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