Your Mission–Critical Applications Always Successful, Always Meeting Business Needs Well!

1. What is WholeTEAM?

WholeTEAM™ is a unique agile requirements definition and management framework (RDMF.) It's a tool designed to ensure that mission–critical applications are always aligned with business needs from product inception through product end of life (EOL.) It provides a common, simplified language to everyone involved — from senior leaders and business stakeholders to program management offices (PMO) and IT teams — and thereby enables product teams to have GOOD REQUIREMENTS.
Your Mission–Critical Applications Always Successful, Always Meeting Business Needs Well!
To keep your mission–critical applications successful, meeting business needs well, you need to have GOOD REQUIREMENTS.

Without having GOOD REQUIREMENTS you cannot keep your mission–critical applications successful, meeting business needs well.

WholeTEAM enables you to have GOOD REQUIREMENTS.
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2. Problem It Solves

WholeTEAM solves product teams struggling with requirements.

Product teams struggling with requirements is common in enterprise software development and maintenance (i.e., in DevOps) projects. It is common in IT modernization and digital transformation projects.

Product teams struggling with requirements results in mission–critical applications that do not meet business needs well, affecting mission outcomes.

WholeTEAM solves this.

3. WHY WholeTEAM? I.e., How Is WholeTEAM Different?

WholeTEAM is simple, effective, and efficient. That is what's unique about it.
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5. Key Benefits

WholeTEAM will help you:
  • Keep your mission–critical applications always successful, always meeting business needs well.
  • Achieve desired mission outcomes.
  • Thrive today in the digital age.

6. Who It Is For

WholeTEAM is designed for mission–critical application teams. It is designed for mission–critical application team members — senior leaders, business stakeholders, program management offices (PMO,) and IT teams. If you are a member of a mission–critical application team, WholeTEAM is for you.

7. How To Use

Three easy steps to using WholeTEAM
  1. Learn it: study closely each one of its features. Developed over a span of many years and last updated and general availability released on 30 November 2024, WholeTEAM 2024 (WT2024) has the following features or "Framework Pages:"

            1. GOOD REQUIREMENTS
            2. The Secret to Keeping Your Mission–Critical Applications
                Always Successful, Always Meeting Business Needs Well
            3. WholeTEAM Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) Model
                       3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7

            Glossary of Acronyms

            WholeTEAM 2024 FAQ
     

    Each feature by itself is simple. Each feature can be accessed in full from the framework home page left navigation menu or sub-menu with just one click. And, each feature is well-defined.
     
  1. Share it: share it with your teammates as needed, and
     
  1. Speak in it on your projects, in order to have GOOD REQUIREMENTS. I.e., based on your best understandings of it, give your input on your projects as needed, in order to have GOOD REQUIREMENTS.

    When it comes to having GOOD REQUIREMENTS and keeping your mission–critical application(s) successful, meeting business needs well, as the effective owner of your product(s) your input makes all the difference!
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9. For Any Feedback

For any feedback on WholeTEAM, please feel free to contact us.
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About the Author
Ephrem Bartolomeos is an IT professional with more than 30 years of enterprise software development and maintenance experience while holding various roles including programmer, software development manager, IT project manager, and IT business analyst and while working within various environments including corporate, government, and startup environments. His career as an IT business analyst spans more than 15 years. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and Mathematics from the University of Minnesota where he graduated in 1992. He lives in Sterling, Virginia.
– This page last updated: 17 Apr 2025
 


 
 
 
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