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Serious Play: How the World's Best Companies Simulate to Innovate
"When talented innovators innovate, you don't listen to the specs they quote. You look at the models they've created." Whether it's a spreadsheet that tests a new financial model or a foam prototype of a calculator, what interests Schrage is not the model itself, but the behavior that play--be it modeling, prototyping, or simulation--inspires.

Definition: Requirements Analysis (Wikipedia)
International Institute of Business Analysis
The IIBA vision is to be the leading world-wide professional association that develops and maintains standards for the practice of business analysis and for the certification of practitioners.

RE-Online Mailing List
The RE-online mailing list aims to act as an electronic forum for exchange of ideas among the requirements engineering researchers and practitioners. The list was created in 1995 by its manager and moderator Dr Didar Zowghi. It is currently located at the Faculty of Information Technology, University of Technology, Sydney.

Volere
Volere is the umbrella that covers the collection of requirements resources, templates, process, consulting and training. Since its inception, Volere has been used by thousands of organizations around the world.

Alan Davis' Requirements Management Bibliography
Bibliography of requirements management resources - maintained by Alan Davis.

Software Engineering Institute (SEI)
One of many requirements-related resources available at the Software Engineering Institute.

Guide to the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge
The software engineering body of knowledge is an all-inclusive term that describes the sum of knowledge within the profession of software engineering. Since it is usually not possible to put the full body of knowledge of even an emerging discipline, such as software engineering, into a single document, there is a need for a Guide to the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge. This Guide will seek to identify and describe that subset of the body of knowledge that is generally accepted, even though software engineers must be knowledgeable not only in software engineering, but also, of course, in other related disciplines.

TRIZ
"TIPS" is the acronym for "Theory of Inventive Problem Solving," and "TRIZ" is the acronym for the same phrase in Russian. TRIZ was developed by Genrich Altshuller and his colleagues in the former USSR starting in 1946, and is now being developed and practiced throughout the world.

Six Thinking Hats
The de Bono system provides you with a common language and powerful set of tools that will help you focus on the improvement of the 'here and now' of essential work that must be done today. And we can show you how this tools-based approach can provide you with new opportunities for movement into the future.

Mind Tools - various resources
Backed by Mind Tools, discover the essential skills and techniques that help you excel in your career - whatever your profession. Learn personal effectiveness, goal setting, and stress management. Further, discover techniques that improve creativity, assist problem solving, organize time and deadlines, and improve your memory.

Project Management Institute (PMI)
Vital and forward thinking – focused on the needs of project management professionals worldwide; that’s the Project Management Institute of today. We’ve long been acknowledged as a pioneer in the field and now our membership represents a truly global community with over 100,000 professionals, representing 125 countries. PMI professionals come from virtually every major industry including, aerospace, automotive, business management, construction, engineering, financial services, information technology, pharmaceuticals, healthcare, and telecommunications.

Software Project Management - A 21st Century Need

Better Projects
Better Projects, on time, according to specs.

Project Management Documentation
The University of Texas at Austin – resource for URS HRIS Programming Staff

Simulation Education Homepage
The Simulation Education HomePage was first officially announced at the Simulation Education Birds-of-a-Feather (BOF) Session at the March 1999 ACM SIGCSE Conference in New Orleans, LA USA.

Computer-Human Interaction Significant Interest Group
ACM SIGCHI, the ACM's Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction, brings together people working on the design, evaluation, implementation, and study of interactive computing systems for human use. ACM SIGCHI provides an international, interdisciplinary forum for the exchange of ideas about the field of human-computer interaction (HCI).

50 Writing Tools
Roy Peter Clark – “Each week, for the next 50, I will describe a writing tool that has been useful to me. I have borrowed these tools from writers and editors, from authors of books on writing, and from teachers and writing coaches. Many come from the X-ray reading of texts I admire.”

Listening Skills
You probably spend more time using your listening skills than any other kind of skill. Like other skills, listening takes practice. What does it mean to really listen?

3M Meeting Network – Articles and Advice
In Articles & Advice we've collected the best of the best. Articles from our own experience and those from industry experts can guide you to a new level of effectiveness and success. Our presentation tips and PowerPoint downloads can make your next presentation your best. And our bookstore and research center can keep you up-to-date on leading-edge trends and techniques.

Good Documents
A web-site that discusses how to create good business documents in the linked, on-screen environment of Intranets and the Internet.

Facilitation Methods
This site is dedicated to providing managers, team leaders, and facilitators with tools for creating, leading and following up group meetings.

Niwot Ridge Resource Page
A Source of Information for Mission Critical Software Systems, Management Processes, and Strategies.

Management Methods / Management Models / Management Theories
Value Based Management.net is a management portal specifically aimed at the information needs of senior executives with an interest in value creation, managing for value and valuation. We provide learning materials explaining management methods, models and theories on strategy, performance, finance, valuation, change, corporate governance, communication, marketing, leadership and responsibility with links to additional resources in the field.

Nerdherding for Beginners
Working with nerds for fun and profit.

Esther Derby
Beyond technical skills, Agile success depends on productive self-organizing teams. How do you develop, grow, and maintain a functioning self-organizing team? It’s not magic, but it doesn’t just happen either. Effective self-organizing teams rely on personal and interpersonal effectiveness.

Idea Generation Methods
This website lists and explains every idea generation method Martin Leith has encountered during the past 15 years. It is the result of extensive research; many sources include books, management journals, websites, academics, consultants and colleagues.

The methods have been drawn not just from the worlds of creative problem solving and innovation, but also from other worlds such as organizational change, strategic planning, psychotherapy, the new sciences and the creative arts.