Volere (Voh-lair-ray) the Italian verb to want, or to wish.
This is the home of the Volere Requirements Specification Template and other requirements and business analysis resources. Volere is the umbrella that covers the collection of requirements templates, processes, books, consulting and training. Since its inception, Volere has been used by thousands of organizations around the world. Read what some of them have to say.
We 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.
Available downloads are the Volere Requirements Specification Template, Stakeholder Analysis, Prioritisation Analysis and the Atomic Requirement Template, or as it is more popularly known, the Snow Card. Most content is free with registration.
The Volere process provides a well-defined structure and guides as to which requirements content is appropriate for you. The process and template work with existing tools (Caliber, DOORS, Requisite, IRqA, etc.) and methods including agile methods. Volere is applicable to modeling techniques such as UML, business process, data and state models. The process is based on experience from worldwide business analysis projects, and is continually improved with input from our users.
We provide business analysts, requirements engineers,systems analysts, project managers and associated roles with resources, requirements reviews,requirements process design, and consulting.
Our innovative training courses, including the flagship Mastering the Requirements Process, have improved the accuracy and relevancy of requirements gathering for our varied clients in many countries.
James & Suzanne Robertson have written an article on agile and innovation for the Cutter Blog.
Stephen Mellor is an embedded systems expert, and is now available to teach Requirements Co-Engineering, a version of Volere requirements techniques for engineers.
The IRM Newsletter this month contains an article by Suzanne Robertson on user stories. January Newsletter.
"Is Agile Shortchanging the Business?" - a new article in Cutter Consortium's Agile Product & Project Management Advisory Service, by James & Suzanne Robertson. Register and receive a complimentary copy of the complete report in PDF format.
Suzanne Robertson was interviewed by Penny Pullan on the subject of The Business Analyst Working with the Project Manager. This interview is part of the Business Analysis Summit 2011 that ran from November 14-24. Listen to the interview here.
Christof Ebert's Software Technology column in the July/August issue of IEEE Software Magazine covers Requirements Engineering Tools. We are pleased that our tools page was able to contribute to this column.
James & Suzanne Robertson are both giving tutorials at the Business Analysis Conference Europe, 26-28 September.
Please note that the Volere site's host will be down for maintenance on May 29 for approximately 12 hours. Apologies for the inconvenience. Sebastián Tyrrell has posted a blog about fit criteria.
The tour of Australia and New Zealand begins. Please see the Events column for details.
Melbourne, May 21-23. 
The Netherlands, May 30 - June 1. Tim Lister teaches 
Sydney, May 31 - June 1. Suzanne Robertson teaches 
Wellington, June 11-13. Suzanne Robertson teaches the popular 
Brussels, August 21-23. James Robertson teaches 
The Netherlands, September 3-5. James Robertson teaches 
Oslo, October 8, 9. Suzanne Robertson teaches 
Oslo, October 10-12. Suzanne Robertson teaches 
Brussels, October 16-18. James Robertson teaches 
London, October 16-18. Suzanne Robertson teaches 
Rome, October 22-24. Suzanne Robertson teaches 
London November 8, 9. James Archer presents