Highrise Consulting, Inc. specializes in all aspects of Software Development Life Cycle.

Highrise has extensive experience in defining complex system requirements: a key aspect of our process is to insure that we have end-user buy-in - a critical step to the successful delivery of the end product.

It is critical in the requirements process to be able to convey the requirements to application developers, system architects, and system testers. RUP is a framework containing best practices to be employed in defining business requirements. Highrise tailors our implementation of RUP in meeting the needs of future system users.

Highrise implements a rigorous change control process to ensure that requirement creep does not become a problem and jeopardize the success of the project.

Working with business users, Highrise determines the specific detailed requirements of the initiative by producing Use Cases and associated supplementary artifacts.

Highrise recommends developing HTML prototypes for interfaces required by the Use Cases. The objective of this effort is to visually show the functionality defined in the detailed requirements, while validating the requirements early using this low cost method.

Once completed, the Vision, Use Case model, prototypes, and detailed requirements artifacts are available for inclusion in the Project Initiation Document. Such an approach has proven very successful at NIH eRA Project, in which Highrise has developed many Use Cases specific to the needs of NIH.

Equally challenging are the maintenance of requirements associated with mission critical systems. Using our experience in Configuration Management and Requirements Repository administration, Highrise will ensure that requirements continue to reflect the functionality of the system. This is achieved by defining requirements baselines and maintaining these baselines using Configuration Management best practices and requirements management tools such as Rational's RequisitePro, ClearQuest, and Rose.