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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January 2012

The IRM Newsletter this month contains an article by Suzanne Robertson on user stories. January Newsletter.

December 2011

"Is Agile Shortchanging the Business?" - a new article in Cutter Consortium's Agile Product & Project Management Advisory Service, by James & Suzanne Robertson. Register and receive a complimentary copy of the complete report in PDF format.

November 2011

Suzanne Robertson was interviewed by Penny Pullan on the subject of The Business Analyst Working with the Project Manager. This interview is part of the Business Analysis Summit 2011 that ran from November 14-24. Listen to the interview here.

October 2011

Christof Ebert's Software Technology column in the July/August issue of IEEE Software Magazine covers Requirements Engineering Tools. We are pleased that our tools page was able to contribute to this column.

September 2011

James & Suzanne Robertson are both giving tutorials at the Business Analysis Conference Europe, 26-28 September.

August 2011

A new article Simplicity and Requirements by Suzanne Robertson has been posted.

May 2011

Please note that the Volere site's host will be down for maintenance on May 29 for approximately 12 hours. Apologies for the inconvenience.

Sebastián Tyrrell has posted a blog about fit criteria.

The tour of Australia and New Zealand begins. Please see the Events column for details.

March 2011

The Volere LinkedIn group now has over one thousand members. Join the discussions.

The current newsletter is titled "Ten Tests for Requirements". See it here.

This month's pattern on the Atlantic Systems Guild site is "Management by Mood Ring".

February 2011

Musings on modelling and agile from our colleague Stephen Mellor at InfoQ

Peter Doomen's new book tells you Fifty Enterprise Architect Tricks to help you get the best from this popular modelling tool.

October '10

• Systems Thinking: the Leaders Summit, November 25th, Milton Keynes

John Seddon is hosting the Leaders Summit, an event where every speaker is a senior leader who has changed their organisation from a conventional command-and-control design to a systems design. Alongside jaw-dropping results the leaders will describe the challenges to be overcome en-route. Further information.

• New articles on Use Cases and Agile Requirements on articles page.

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