Understanding the Intricacies of a Requirements Management Tool
With thousands of Requirements collected from a variety of sources, many Product Management need to cope with the deterring job of determining the relative importance of requirements for a set of organizational objectives. Requirement Management toolsmake certain that all developers are working from the same page, regardless of where they are located.An efficient Requirements Management solution offers a rich and configurable, global platform for encapsulating a set of requirements, collaborating on their development and tracing implementation.
Benefits of a successful requirements tool
With a good requirements management tool, it is possible for telecommuters work more efficiently offering superior collaboration with special home in-house functional groups. There is also improved management and control of offshore projects along with an enhanced association with service partners. Some of the other benefits include
* Assess and Prioritize Requirements
By assessing and prioritizing requirements, it becomes simple to buy-in of the outcome and puts all groups in complete harmony moving forward in developing and managing a good product release.
* Improved Productivity
With a good process and methodology, there is better growth and management in small companies. Requirement management facilitates the use of proper tools that create good quality and enhanced productivity.
* Advanced Quality
There are lesser errors in the implementation cycle as there is one version of the truth captured and shared globally by all developers. Consequently, there is less testing time and almost no reworking of the application after system testing
* Better team collaboration
With the integration of tools there is better team collaboration, as collaborative requirements managementpermits a shared single repository with globally distributed teams having web-based access to requirements. This checks errors as teams work with the same specifications.
Traceability and Versioning in a Requirements Management Tool
A requirement management tool needs to support Traceability among the different entities like Requirements,Use Cases, Test Cases, Issues and Releases as it facilitates a link from one entity item toanother and create a sequence that can be used to view the entire Lifecycle of a Requirement of envisaging tools.This can be inclusive of a requirement traceability, Requirements Traceability Matrix and Traceability Relation Network diagram. To ensure harmonization and to focus on remedial actions so that problems are addressed early to minimize cost of changes at the end of the lifecycle, an impact of changes is forwarded to stakeholders automatically.
In any organization a well written and implemented Requirements has tremendous value. By reusing Requirements assets, projects can bring down overall development time and enhance quality. As requirement changes are a reality of any project, to make a development project successful, it is necessary for Requirements Management start at the beginning of a development lifecycle process and work with various other tools.
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