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Needs & Means is now ValPlan.net

I am very pleased to announce that, as of 20 May 2019, the Needs & Means application is now hosted, operated and supported by Gilb International AS, running on https://www.valplan.net.

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How To Export / Delete All Content

Find out how to export or permanently delete all of the content from your Needs & Means Organisation

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The 60 Minute Value Challenge

Learn how to find your stakeholders, determine their real needs, and identify at least one thing you could actually deliver to someone to make their lives better within just sixty minutes! You will also start learning about some highly effective techniques for requirements analysis and design evaluation that are useful on any type of project.

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Template Statements

When I started writing functional specifications as a business analyst in 1997, I quickly realised that writing large blocks of unstructured English prose was inherently unsuitable for requirements definitions for a variety of reasons. Ambiguity, vagueness, omission and duplication were just some of the seemingly unavoidable problems with writing in natural language.

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The Level Canvas

The Level Canvas was introduced to Needs & Means in February 2018 after an original idea by Kai Gilb, which provides a powerful tool to model, view and edit all specifications in a Needs & Means project.

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First Steps With Planguage And Needs & Means

So you have registered for a new Organisation account on Needs & Means, but now what? This article gives you some ideas on how to get started writing your first awesome requirements using Planguage.

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About Us

Needs & Means was developed by RSBA Technology Ltd in 2015 as the world’s first purpose-built Planguage requirements authoring and management application using the latest reactive web technology.

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