WholeTEAM's Invention Story
Ephrem Bartolomeos
is founder and CEO of WholeTEAM™ Technologies and
the inventor (the author) and owner of WholeTEAM™.
By profession, he is an IT business analyst, a business systems analyst; a software engineer specializing in requirements.
He helps enterprises keep their mission–critical applications meeting business needs well,
by providing to them effective requirements support on their enterprise software development and maintenance (i.e., on their DevOps) projects.
He has more than 30 years of experience in enterprise software development and maintenance,
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 and counting.
His main job as an IT business analyst is facilitating—is doing—requirements.
Requirements, or, to be more precise, requirements definition and management (RDM,) is one of five main activities of enterprise software development
and maintenance (ESDM) and is a crucial activity in ESDM (is a crucial activity in DevOps.)
His goal as an IT business analyst is to help his team tackle complex problems and gain better business outcomes.
He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and Mathematics from the University of Minnesota where he graduated magna cum laude in 1992.
Ephrem conceived WholeTEAM in December 2000, as a small personal side project that he thought would last no longer than a couple of months,
while working as a software development manager at a startup enterprise software company in White Plains, New York.
His aim was to develop a simple framework that could enable himself, his team, and his organization to make good product requirements decisions.
In other words, his aim was to develop a simple requirements definition and management (RDM) framework—a simple "RDMF."
He started the project after searching the internet for such a framework and not finding any.
What he didn't realize at the time was that he had actually fallen through a rabbit hole.
Finding himself still working on it several years later and sensing that everyone can benefit from it
if he just built the product right and made it free for everyone to use,
he named the tool he was developing 'WholeTEAM' and acquired the domain name 'www.wholeteam.org'
in March 2006. He released the first version of WholeTEAM on the web in September 2009.
He continued to refine it online in real time in the ensuing years.
Not happy with it and discouraged, he took it offline in March 2018.
He received unexpected inspiration and regained his direction in October 2019.
He then released 'WholeTEAM 2022' in September 2021,
and finished and released the final version, 'WholeTEAM 2024' (WT2024) — a simpler and more polished version of the original — on 30 November 2024.
Ephrem believes that for any enterprise to thrive today in the digital age it is vital that it keep its mission–critical applications always* successful, always meeting business needs well. (*from product inception until product end of life (EOL)) He developed WholeTEAM as the world's best tool for having GOOD REQUIREMENTS. He developed WholeTEAM to help everyone, himself included, keep one's mission–critical application always successful, always meeting business needs well. He envisions WholeTEAM industry standard (universally used.) He envisions all mission–critical applications always successful, always meeting business needs well! At WholeTEAM Technologies, today his focus is teaching it. |
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