REVEAL

• 48% of the sources of project failure are requirements problems.
• 41% of system errors are introduced during the requirements phase.
• It costs 50 times more to fix a requirements error during acceptance testing than during the requirements phase.

REVEAL® is designed to attack the root causes of project failure by getting the requirements right at the start, and then managing the evolution of the requirements through the project.

What is different about REVEAL®?

• Focuses on the underlying requirements by first understanding what an organisation must achieve, before addressing what a system must do.
• Actively identifies and resolves requirements conflict.
• Recognises and incorporates requirements change management.
• Supports a flexible choice of tools and notations.

The key elements of REVEAL®

• Practical, well-tried techniques for producing precise, unambiguous requirements documents.
• Soft skills, for dealing with the human stakeholders, individually and in groups.
• Underlying engineering process, for bringing it all together.

• Software systems development (including rapid application development).
• Engineering projects (large scale, with a combination of mechanical, electrical, computer and people elements).
• Process design.
• Product strategy (developing and gaining agreement for future direction for manufactured products).

How we deliver REVEAL® to you?

• Capability delivery. Praxis has a number of REVEAL® practitioners who can elicit, document and manage your requirements for you.
• Capability enhancement. Praxis REVEAL® practitioners can work alongside your team to provide training and mentoring, and design and tailor your requirements processes and tools, building a lasting, effective requirements engineering capability.
• REVEAL® training. Praxis runs open four-day REVEAL® training courses, or you may prefer a training programme tailored to your organisation’s specific needs. Praxis has trained over 400 engineers in REVEAL®.

Useful links

IEEE Requirements Conference 2009