Why is a Requirements Management Tool Important?

In a perfect world:

• The stakeholders on a project would be mind-readers who automatically knew the project’s every specification and assumption
• Every project would benefit from a business analyst well-versed in domain and technical knowledge
• All clients would articulate their expectations with 100% certainty, and
• Every (mammoth) requirements document would be an absolute joy to read.

But we live in the real world.

In our real-world projects, we deal with far too many of those “he said, she said” situations where malformed or vague requirements end up tanking our projects and tarnishing our business relationships. In the real world, sometimes the task of requirements documentation falls to a project manager or someone with limited technical proficiency and domain knowledge.

And let’s not forget that documenting requirements is simply a tedious task—no one actually wants to spend their time creating (or reading) a 100-page print-out of an Excel spreadsheet.

The end goal of Requirements Management (RM) is to operate with clear, realistic, and agreed-upon requirements.

What should you look for in a Requirements Management Solution?

#1 - Requirements Management

This includes the ability to define requirements, model relationships between them, reuse requirements, and export/import requirements data for creating requirements documentation.

#2 - Traceability and Real-Time Impact Analysis

Ultimately, being able to establish automatic relationships across requirements is key in requirements management. This is one of the major advantages of using requirements management software over a simple spreadsheet. Traceable requirements and impact analysis include the ability to run test cases. In effect, this allows you to mitigate risks when requirements, people, decisions, and timelines inevitably shift during the course of a project.

#3 - Collaboration

Good requirements software should include functionality for interaction between users. This includes the ability to review, approve, provide electronic signatures, gather input, and receive notification of other users’ activity within the software.

If you're looking for an easy way to get up and running with a completely integrated Requirements Management solution...join "321 Gang's Hand-On Labs Online."

WATCH

Relevant, in-depth technical information, demos, and business values delivered as an online event from a 321 Gang instructor.

TRY

Attendees are given individual access to a virtual sandbox of the IBM ELM solution (DOORS Next, Test Management and Workflow Management) to try out without having to install the actual software trial on their machine.

LEARN

Attendees are given a lab manual, can ask the instructor questions, receive step-by-step guidance and can interact with other attendees / colleagues in the virtual room.

“A Better Way to Manage Requirements”

In this FREE, online / expert-led / hands-on lab, you will:

• Import requirements from a spreadsheet
• Create a collection of requirements in DOORS Next
• Create a Test Plan
• Quickly link your Requirements to the Test plan
• Automatically Generate Test Cases
• Quickly create tasks for your Requirements
• Easily identify potential impacts from changes

Session # 1: June 17th | 1pm - 2pm ET | A Better Way to Manage Requirements

Session # 2: July 1st | 1pm - 2pm ET | A Better Way to Manage Requirements

Limited Seats Available!

More classes and topics to be added soon.

Contact [email protected] for more information or to inquire about private, expert-led online training for your team.