White Papers

The following white papers represent lessons learned on over 700 successful projects, and demonstrate the repeatable methodologies we've developed to minimize project risk and maximize project value.

Rapid Requirements Discovery
Every CSG project is driven by the requirements, so defining these requirements is a crucial first step. CSG consultants listen closely to understand your business and what you want to accomplish. Through our proven Rapid Requirements Discovery (RRD) technique, we can work with you to outline specific project requirements and develop detailed plans for meeting them.	View

Rapid Requirements Discovery for Business Intelligence
Rapid Requirements Discovery for BI (RRD-BI) is an agile technique for quickly defining useful requirements for BI applications, while avoiding the "analysis paralysis" trap. The purpose of RRD-BI is to produce quick results that focus BI development efforts on the most important business questions.	View

Adaptive Requirements Management
For over ten years CSG has been developing, applying, and fine-tuning an approach for managing software requirements which we call Adaptive Requirements Management (ARM). This approach results from thousands of hours of involvement in the development of important software systems, and from lessons learned. From our extensive experience we know that there is no “one size fits all” process for software requirements management. The unique characteristics of each project, and of each project team, must drive the adaptation of the requirements management process. The ARM approach focuses first on identifying these unique characteristics. Once these are understood, the software requirements activities, methods and process are adapted for best fit in the environment.	View