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Clear communication of the testing process helps customers keep their testing phase on schedule and budget.

By Lars Schnieder and Susanne Arndt Interdisciplinary and inter-organizational project collaboration is a challenge. One of the most essential tasks in big and heterogeneous projects is requirements engineering, which, done properly, helps master complexity and reduce misunderstanding.

Shared use of a requirements management database with NASA contractors and partners greatly aids engineering collaboration and communication.

By Terry Little For as long as I can remember, we in the Department of Defense have based our development programs on user requirements.

By Russel Rhodes   There is more to a ballistic rocket than hardware and software. Think about all the fluids required to power its systems.

JSC Knowledge Management policy requirements and strategy documents.

By Todd Post In my last Conference Report, I told you about the KS East and West Meetings in December. March 12-15 found KS Participants back in Atlanta for the East meeting and, instead of San Francisco, we were in Pasadena this time for the West.

By Jeff Cline   A 1995 Standish Group survey of 365 respondents spanning 8,380 software applications showed that only 16 percent of software development projects finished on time and on budget; 31 percent were canceled; and the remaining 53 percent overran costs by an average of 189 percent.

Ask OCE — February 8, 2006 — Vol. 1, Issue 3   “It’s the wrong thing to be doing,” I told the Director of Engineering, trying to head off a last-minute change in our X-ray Timing Explorer (XTE) project.