Have you ever automated the Requirement Management?
A requirements management process reduces project risks by systematically collecting, managing andcommunicating the change requirements. A well implemented requirements management process
helps teams to deliver a quality product on time and within budget.
Requirement management tools store requirements and related information centrally. They import and
export requirements, establish traceability between them and link requirements to other software
development tools.
Tools used in this space are:
Rational RequisitePro:
Ideal for medium size projects where requirements are already gathered in word doc, excel and would
like to be tracked.
Rational Doors:
Best suited for complex systems level projects where requirements management rigor & process is quite
intense. E.g. defense, aerospace, telecommunications, etc.
Introducing Company’s own tool for managing requirements...
CompanyRM 2.0 capabilities:
· Gather/capture stakeholder’s needs
· Generate Flow and Usecase diagrams
· Migrate existing requirements from Word/Excel to tool
· Capture, prioritize, organize and manage requirements
· Provide end-end bidirectional traceability between requirements
· Distributed collaborative development through centralized database and CompanyRM web
Inviting projects for CompanyRM2.0 pilot
Winning Stories
Domain: RCTG
Business Requirements:
· High requirement volatality needed an automation of requirement management
· New requirements acceptance based on traceability between the business and technical
requirements
Benefits:
· Traceability between all artifacts of the SDLC seen in a single view
· Team members across geographies able to update the requirements through RequisiteWeb
Domain: Company BPO
Business Requirements:
· Managing huge set of requirements through various sources
· Requirement collaboration without central repository
· Identifying main requirements and linked requirements for a particular release
· Automated reports for listing of requirements as per the different criteria
Benefits:
· Single repository to organize and track different types of requirements
· Team referred to the same source (standalone/web) with dynamic updates
· Automated reports to view all the requirements along with the traced requirements for a
particular release
Feedback on RM tools:
“Due to the high churn, the requirements management was taking huge effort from the business
analyst, developers and the project management team. RequisitePro implementation reduces a lot of
confusion and bugs getting into the code. Besides it saves a lot of rework and improves productivity.
The process of raising new requirements and change of requirements also are streamlined for all
stakeholders. Since the new requirements are assigned to individual developers, the tool helps in
tracking as well.” - Senior Manager (GMT)
“One of the best tool to track requirement changes across SDLC which also ensures completeness of all
the features.” - Project Manager (GMT)