Volere
Requirements templates and techniques

Yonix is working with Volere to uniquely offer an out-of-the-box configuration and support for the Volere Requirements Knowledge Model. 

What is the Volere Requirements Knowledge Model?

Volere is the name given to a collection of requirements resources, templates and techniques that have been developed based on research, application and experience from worldwide business analysis for over 15 years.  It is a common and easily accessible way of discovering requirements, communicating them and connecting them to solutions.  It can easily be tailored to suit your project and works with all types of methods and approaches, including Agile. 

Who uses Volere?

Volere is used in six of the seven continents and since its introduction in 1995 the Volere approach to requirements has been used by thousands of projects.  These range from the conventional commercial domains such as banking, insurance to more exotic areas such as air traffic control, aviation, automotive engineering and many more.  The list of organisations using Volere components is impressive and includes American Express, Federal Express, Hewlett-Packard, Royal Mail (UK), Eurocontrol, to name just a few.  A more comprehensive list is available on the Volere website.

Volere is developed by James Robertson and Suzanne Robertson, principals of the Atlantic Systems Guild, requirements practitioners and authors of books on requirements including Mastering the Requirements Process. Today there is a large Volere community, network of consultants, instructors and agents around the world, who practice, contribute and improve the Volere Requirements Knowledge Model and are available and qualified to help you get better value for your investment in requirements.

Training and Community

There is an active community of Volere users who regular contribute to discussions in the Volere LinkedIn Group.  Volere also 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.

A list of upcoming courses can be found on Volere website.  Courses in Australia and New Zealand are run by Software Education. 

Yonix Support for Volere

Existing tools do offer varying levels of support for Volere but they fall short of offering the required level of support for the processes, templates and techniques and do not offer an out-of-the-box implementation.  Yonix is working with Volere to uniquely offer this to our customers.  Our first release for Volere support will be in late 2011/early 2012.  This release will include:

• Ability to store atomic requirements / snow cards and associated attributes
• Requirement Types, Priorities, Statuses to support atomic requirements
• Templates for the Requirements Specification, Business Use Cases (BUC) and Product Use Cases (PUC)
• Ability to cluster all atomic requirements related to one PUC and one BUC by linking them to the BUC/PUC scenario. 
• Dictionaries that define the terms / classes and attributes of data and data flows used in the atomic requirements
• Stakeholder Groups  
• A Volere MS Word template with styles for exporting requirements and specification documents.

Next Steps

• Visit the Volere Website to learn more and download the Volere templates including Volere Requirements Specification Template, Stakeholder Analysis, Prioritisation Analysis and the Atomic Requirement Template, or as it is more popularly known, the Snow Card.  Most of the resources are available for free after registration.
• Join the Volere LinkedIn Group
• Attend a Mastering the Requirements Process training course in Australia and New Zealand  or the Rest of the World (All attendees will receive a free 12 month Yonix subscription)
• Join the Yonix community and contribute to share your ideas, experiences and contribute to the development of Yonix and the Volere support.
• Sign-Up with Yonix for a completely free no obligation risk free trial.