Importance of Reusability and Requirements Collaboration within ALM
Did you know that Requirements Management can actually make or break the ultimate success of the project in a distributed software and systems development project? An efficient and optimized requirements management tool can be a life-saver for any project. Collaboration and reusability are 2 main elements of Requirements Management that can greatly assist in a distributed project. With a collaborative Requirements Management that is equipped with a high degree of reusability can significantly decrease the development time and risks.
So what exactly is the role of collaboration within requirements management? Collaboration is the basis for working together to share information and to accomplish common tasks. For today’s software development practices, “Collaboration” among different groups / roles working from diverse geographic locations has almost become a necessity. And among all phases of software development life cycle, it is the Requirement Management phase that greatly demands collaboration since there are globally distributed stakeholders who are required to be involved in creating, reviewing and approving of all Requirements. Therefore enterprises would get better results if they opt for a Collaborative Knowledge Management Infrastructure for their distributed teams. Such ALM solutions or infrastructure would be backed by a single web-based application that can effectively cover all the features necessary for all asynchronous collaboration.
An application lifecycle management solution that is a 100% web-based customizable solution that can ably offer multiple avenues to work collaboratively to manage requirements is a best bet for any enterprise. The idea is to allow users to access the Requirement Management solution from remote locations and enable optimized collaboration across geographically distributed teams. Also a broader versioning of Requirements can offer better and broader spectrum for projects. Generally within Requirement Management, the milestones can be set by creating Baselines on regular interval which enables the archiving of the history of Requirements so that easy referral and comparison is possible even on a later date. So for example, even if 6 months down the line, if the management wishes to view the contents of the set of Requirements as it was on the Project kick off date, they can easily refer to the baseline drawn on the kicked off date.
With a flexible baseline such reports can be easily generated as of any arbitrary point in time to show the status of an ongoing project. Additionally it also provides the functionality to compare two baselines drawn on two different dates so that the management team gets an insight of all the changes occurred in the Project between two dates.
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