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Past Presentations

March–25, 2015
PMI Portland, Oregon Chapter

Cheryl Hill presented our one-day Writing Requirements for Validation and Management seminar (8 PDUs). The 40+ attendees gained valuable insight into best practices for the writing, validation and management of requirements and received templates and other tools that they could use during the requirements definition and management process. The training was a great success and enjoyed by all attendees.

February 22–23, 2012
NASA Project Management (PM) Challenge 2012
Lou Wheatcraft presented Triple your Project Success Rate: Risk and Requirements and Thinking Ahead to Verification and Validation.

June 21, 2011
INCOSE International Symposium
Lou Wheatcraft presented his paper Triple your chances of Project Success

March 29, 2011
Alamo Chapter INCOSE Luncheon
Ivy’s presentation was attended by a very active and interesting group of individuals.

July 12–15, 2010
20th Anniversary International INCOSE Symposium, Chicago, Illinois
Ivy‘s one-half day tutorial on Advanced Writing and Managing Interface Requirements was crammed full with over 85 attendees. Questions and discussions were excellent.

Why Johnny STILL Can’t Write Requirements – and what to do about it had a small but very active and interesting group of attendees.

Lou Wheatcraft presented two papers. Getting Started on the Right Foot: Developing Requirements for Constellation’s Next Generation Space Suit, is the paper version of the presentation Terry Hill of NASA and Lou made at PM Challenge. Everything you wanted to know about interfaces, but were afraid to ask, complimented Ivy’s tutorial on interfaces

“Why Johnny STILL Can’t Write Requirements: Requirements from 1990–2010”
Presented by Ivy Hooks at the 22nd Annual Systems & Software Technology Conference (SSTC),
Salt Lake City, Utah, April 26–29, 2010

“Getting Started on the Right Foot: Developing Requirements for Constellation’s Next Generation Space Suit”
Presented by Lou Wheatcraft and Terry Hill, NASA – Johnson Space Center
NASA PM Challenge Galveston, TX, Feb 10, 2009

“Writing Good Requirements”
tutorial presented by Lou Wheatcraft
April 2008 INCOSE Northstar Chapter, Minneapolis, MN

“Writing Good Requirements” presented by Lou Wheatcraft
February 2008
NASA PM Challenge, Daytona Beach, FL

“Writing Good Requirements” tutorial presented by Bob Lee
September 2007
INCOSE Union of South Africa Chapter, Johannesburg

“Writing Good Requirements” presented by Ivy Hooks
September 2007
INCOSE Alamo Chapter, San Antonio, TX

“Planning Your IT Needs” presented by Ivy Hooks
April 2007
TAB Business Owners Seminar, San Antonio, TX

“Why it shouldn’t be so hard to write a system specification” presented by Ivy Hooks
February 2007
NASA PM Challenge 08, Galveston, TX

“Requirement Engineering: An Oxymoron?” presented by Ivy Hooks
September 2006
RE 06 (International Conference), Minneapolis, MN

“How to get people to tell you what they want” presented by Ivy Hooks
August 2006
Alamo PMI Chapter, San Antonio, TX

“PM Managers’ Role in Requirement Management” presented by Ivy Hooks
March 2006
NASA PM Challenge, Galveston, TX

“Better Baselines” panel discussion with Ivy Hooks
March 2006
NASA PM Challenge, Galveston, TX

“Knowing What You Want” presented by Ivy Hooks
November 2005
TAB Business Owners Seminar Series, San Antonio, TX

“Three Tools for the System Engineer’s Tool Kit” presented by Ivy Hooks
October 2005
INCOSE Alamo Chapter, San Antonio, TX

“PM Role in Requirement Management” presented by Ivy Hooks
June 2005
PDS (Software arm of PMI) (International Conference), San Francisco, CA

“Writing Defect-Free Requirements in Government and Industry” tutorial presented by Ivy Hooks
June 2005
INCOSE Symposium 05 (International Conference), Rochester, NY

“Developing Requirements for Technology-Driven Products” presented by Lou Wheatcraft
June 2005
INCOSE Symposium 05 (International Conference), Rochester, NY

“Writing Defect-Free Requirements” presented by Ivy Hooks
May 2005
PSQT West (International Conference), Las Vegas, NV

“Writing Good Requirements” tutorial presented by Ivy Hooks
May 2005
INCOSE Enchantment Chapter, Albuquerque, NM

“Writing Defect-Free Requirements”
April 2005
Systems and Software Technology Conference (SSTC), Salt Lake City, Utah