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How to identify your lowest and highest ROI development practices

A 1-day, virtual, self-guided training class on spotting the development practices that are actually worth their cost — and the ones that aren't.

identify wasteful software development practices training
1 Day
Virtual, self-guided — work through it at your own pace
Recommended For
Teams using Requs AI Optima, Requs AI Risk ID, or Requs AI Predict
No Software Required
The class can be purchased and taken on its own, without any Requs AI product
01 — Authority

Our founder is the global leader in software reliability and process improvement

Standards Body

IEEE 1633 Leadership

Chair of the 2026 IEEE 1633 working group — the governing standard for software reliability engineering.

Continual lessons learned applied to the world's largest defect density benchmarking study

Decades of Trending Data

While others fail to keep their model factors current with technology - we're on our 8th major revision since 1993.

World's largest database of software failures analyzed by root cause

CDE Taxonomy inventor

From it, we created the Common Defect Enumeration, the primary taxonomy currently adopted and cited across DOW technical frameworks.

02 — The Class

Most teams can't tell their highest-ROI practice from their lowest without a structured look

Every software organization has development practices that are quietly paying for themselves many times over — and others that are quietly costing more than they return. Without a structured way to tell them apart, teams tend to keep doing both, indefinitely.

This class pairs naturally with Requs AI Optima, Requs AI Risk ID, and Requs AI Predict — but doesn't require any of them. It's built to be useful on its own.

Capability
Without this training
With this training
Spotting low-ROI development practices
Trial and error, surfaced slowly and only after the cost is already sunk
A structured gap analysis surfaces them in a single day
Understanding organizational bottlenecks
Anecdotal — based on whoever complains loudest in the retro
A repeatable method for locating where the real bottlenecks are
Balancing scope, time, and cost trade-offs
Ad hoc and reactive, decided under schedule pressure
A framework tied directly to the software iron triangle
Connects to your existing tools
Generic process-improvement training, disconnected from your data
Built to pair directly with Requs AI Optima, Risk ID, and Predict
03 — Curriculum

What the class covers

Three modules, covered in a single self-guided day.

§1Successful Orgs

Characteristics common to successful software development organizations

What You'll Learn

What the highest-performing software organizations consistently do differently — not the practices everyone talks about, but the ones that actually correlate with better outcomes.

Why It Matters

Without a benchmark for what "good" actually looks like, it's impossible to tell whether a given practice is helping or just adding overhead.

wasteful software development practices process maturity ROI CMMI level 3 chart

A real wasteful practice, in the data: process maturity ROI bottoms out at CMMi Level 3. Below Level 3, every investment pays off and escaped defect density drops sharply. Above Level 3, returns diminish — spending keeps rising while defects plateau.

§2Bottlenecks

Where are the bottlenecks in software development?

What You'll Learn

A structured way to locate where time, cost, and defects are actually piling up in your development process — instead of guessing based on whichever phase feels the most painful.

Why It Matters

Fixing a bottleneck that isn't the real bottleneck doesn't speed anything up — it just moves the backlog somewhere else.

§3Gap Analysis

Software gap analysis and the iron triangle

What You'll Learn

How to run a gap analysis that connects your current practices to the software iron triangle — scope, time, and cost — and see exactly where the trade-offs are actually happening.

Why It Matters

This is the same iron triangle framework behind Requs AI Optima — by the end of this module you'll be able to run the analysis yourself, with or without the tool.

04 — Class Details

Format, duration, and prerequisites

Duration

1 Day

Delivered as a single day of self-guided instruction.

Format

Virtual, Self-Guided

Work through the material on your own schedule, at your own pace.

Prerequisites

None Required

Recommended for teams already using Requs AI Optima, Risk ID, or Predict, but the class can be purchased and taken entirely on its own.

Find your highest and lowest ROI development practices in a single day.

Register for the class, or schedule a demonstration of the Requs AI tools it pairs with.