{"id":1314,"date":"2013-07-26T20:58:51","date_gmt":"2013-07-27T03:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Polarion-Blog\/Can-Social-Media-help-you-identify-Requirements\/ba-p\/380766"},"modified":"2026-03-26T05:37:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T09:37:18","slug":"can-social-media-help-you-identify-requirements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/polarion\/can-social-media-help-you-identify-requirements\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Social Media help you identify Requirements?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><SPAN style=\"font-size: 85%; font-style: italic;\">By Stefano Rizzo<\/SPAN><\/p>\n<p>A <STRONG>social media approach<\/STRONG> to <STRONG>gathering requirements<\/STRONG> can bring some <STRONG>interesting benefits<\/STRONG> to your organization:<br \/>\n<UL><br \/>\n\t<LI>Involvement of more stakeholders<\/LI><br \/>\n\t<LI>Ability to harvest unusual requirements and unsolicited feedback that improve your release strategy and product usability<\/LI><br \/>\n\t<LI>A better company reputation from delivering the right stuff to market<\/LI><br \/>\n<\/UL><br \/>\nAt Polarion, we know it works because <STRONG>we&#8217;ve been doing it<\/STRONG> for some time. <STRONG>But how do you go about it?<\/STRONG><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s exactly what I&#8217;ll be talking about at this year&#8217;s <STRONG>Better Software Conference East<\/STRONG>&nbsp;&#8211; why not plan on joining me and others interested in building better software?<STRONG><A href=\"http:\/\/bsceast.techwell.com\/sessions\/better-software-conference-east-2013\/requirements-elicitation-social-media-way\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><br \/>\n<\/A><\/STRONG><br \/>\n<UL><br \/>\n\t<LI><SPAN style=\"line-height: 13px;\"><STRONG>What: <\/STRONG>Presentation &#8211;<STRONG>&nbsp;<\/STRONG>&nbsp;<A href=\"http:\/\/bsceast.techwell.com\/sessions\/better-software-conference-east-2013\/requirements-elicitation-social-media-way\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Requirements Elicitation\u2014the Social Media Way<\/A>&nbsp;<\/SPAN><\/LI><br \/>\n\t<LI><STRONG>Where:<\/STRONG> <A href=\"http:\/\/bsceast.techwell.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Better Software Conference East<\/A>, Boston Massachusetts, USA<\/LI><br \/>\n\t<LI><STRONG>When:<\/STRONG> Wednesday, November 13, 2013 &#8211; 3:45pm &#8211; 5:00pm<\/LI><br \/>\n\t<LI><STRONG>Who: <\/STRONG><A href=\"http:\/\/bsceast.techwell.com\/sme-profiles\/stefano-rizzo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Stefano Rizzo<\/A>, SVP Strategy &amp; Business Development, Polarion Software (yours truly!)<\/LI><br \/>\n<\/UL><br \/>\nOf course there&#8217;s <A title=\"Conference Overview\" href=\"http:\/\/bsceast.techwell.com\/conference-overview-4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">much more<\/A> to be gleaned from this excellent conference. I know it&#8217;s still summer, but now might be a good time to &#8220;bug the boss for budget&#8221; and take advantage of &#8220;early bird&#8221; pricing. Hope to see you there!<\/p>\n<p><STRONG>P.S.&nbsp;<\/STRONG>Can&#8217;t make the conference? Some of the same principles I&#8217;ll be speaking about are covered in my <STRONG>whitepaper<\/STRONG>&nbsp;&#8220;<EM>Agile, Requirements Management and Regulatory Compliance \u2013 A Practical Live Approach&#8221;<\/EM>, which you can <A title=\"Free Whitepaper from Polarion Software\" href=\"http:\/\/www.polarion.com\/resources\/download.php?dl=Agile-Requirements-Management-and-Regulatory-Compliance-A_Practical-Live-Approach.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><STRONG>download right now for free<\/STRONG><\/A>.<br \/>\n<DIV style=\"text-align: center;\"><A href=\"http:\/\/www.polarion.com\/resources\/download.php?dl=Agile-Requirements-Management-and-Regulatory-Compliance-A_Practical-Live-Approach.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><IMG title=\"\" alt=\"Agile Requirements whitepaper cover\" src=\"http:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/legacyfs\/online\/siemensplm_blogs\/2013\/07\/Agile-RM-Cover-sm.jpg\" width=\"175\" height=\"239\" \/><\/A><br \/>\n<A href=\"http:\/\/www.polarion.com\/resources\/download.php?dl=Agile-Requirements-Management-and-Regulatory-Compliance-A_Practical-Live-Approach.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><IMG title=\"\" alt=\"Download button\" src=\"http:\/\/www.polarion.com\/resources\/img\/btn_download.png\" width=\"192\" height=\"41\" \/><\/A><\/DIV><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><HR \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><A href=\"http:\/\/bsceast.techwell.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><IMG class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"Better Software Conference EAST\" src=\"http:\/\/bsceast.techwell.com\/sites\/default\/files\/domain-50\/genesis_bsceast_logo.jpg\" width=\"960\" height=\"180\" \/><\/A><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Stefano Rizzo <\/p>\n<p>A social media approach to gathering requirements can bring some interesting benefits to your organization:<\/p>\n<p>\t Involvement of more stakeholders<br \/>\n\t Ability to harvest unusual requi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68976,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"industry":[],"product":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/polarion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/polarion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/polarion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/polarion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68976"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/polarion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/polarion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1315,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/polarion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314\/revisions\/1315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/polarion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/polarion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/polarion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1314"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/polarion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=1314"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/polarion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=1314"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/polarion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}