Author: Melinda Ballou, Program Director for IDC's Application Life-Cycle Management Group and principal analyst for Insight's IT Management service

Whether you are producing a product, an application, a system or a process, requirements drive the application process. During this podcast, Melinda Ballou program director of IDC's Application Life-Cycle Management Group will discuss how a connected requirements approach to the application development lifecycle strengthens your requirements management capabilities by unifying the requirements definition process and integrating requirements with the complete application development environment, techniques and best practices. No matter what you are building this approach can help you improve time-to-market, increase quality and reduce costs.