Suzanne Robertson Senior Consultant

Suzanne Robertson is a Senior Consultant with Cutter Consortium's Agile Product & Project Management practice and is a principal and founder of the Atlantic Systems Guild. Ms. Robertson is co-author of Requirements-Led Project Management (Addison Wesley, 2005) a book that provides project managers with guidance on how to use the work done by requirements analysts as input to steering projects. The book defines the relationships between effective requirements practices and project success. This management book connects to Mastering the Requirements Process (Addison-Wesley Edition 2, 2006) a guide for practitioners on finding requirements and writing them so that all stakeholders can understand them.

Current work includes research and consulting on the management, sociological and technological aspects of requirements. The product of this research is Volere, a complete requirements process and template for assessing requirements quality, and for specifying requirements.

Ms. Robertson is author of many papers on systems engineering (many of these papers are on the web site www.systemsguild.com). She also speaks at numerous conferences and universities. She is a member of IEEE and on the board of the British Computer Society's Requirements Groups. She was the founding editor of the Requirements Column in IEEE Software

Other interests include a passion for the opera, cooking, skiing and finding out about curious things. She can be reached at consulting@cutter.com.

For more by Suzanne Robertson see:

• Mastering the Requirements Process: How to Build the System Your Customer Wants Deal
• Business Requirements Modeling