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Requirements management best practices
Requirements management best practicesI work for a large company with a fairly informal software development process, especially in the area of requirement gathering/management. I would like to hear how others perform their requirements management. I would appreciate any information about how you gather requirements, how they are maintained...
Tags: Requirements Management, it management, requirements, project development lifecycle, hoghat@..., programming, simple Access database, change control
Discussion threads 2006-05-20
Requirements Management Database 2.5 (Windows)
The Requirements Management Database is a project management scope tool that helps capture, refine, prioritize, and track the development of a detailed list of product or project requirements in a living document. The output is a Market Requirements Document MRD, a Product Requirements Document PRD, a Request for Information RFI,...
Tags: Microsoft Windows, Requirements Management, Requirements Management Database, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management
Software downloads 2010-01-02
Requirements Management: The Proven Way to Accelerate Development
Requirements management is an often underutilized discipline in software development. Yet the economic benefits - lowered development costs, faster development and better products that delight customers - have plainly been demonstrated in study after study. In this paper, renowned engineering process expert Karl Wiegers makes the case...
Tags: Serena Software Inc., Requirements Management, Product Development, Product Marketing, Software Development, Development Tools, Strategy, Research & Development, Business Operations, Marketing, Software/Web Development, Management
White papers 2005-05-01
Importance of Requirements Engineering in Making Your Project a Success
"I'll go find out what they want, and the rest start coding." This caption from a cartoon is very close to the way some software organizations still treat the requirements specification process. In many companies, requirements management is a difficult challenge. They focus their efforts on design, development and testing...
Tags: Accord Software & Systems, Requirements Management, Team Management, Tools & Techniques, Management
White papers 2009-01-01

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Five Levels of Requirements Management Maturity
This webcast provides a framework for the requirements management discipline to help practitioners categorize and understand requirements management concepts, from simple to complex. Someone first learning about requirements, as in any discipline, is best served by starting at the beginning, learning the simple concepts, and then progressing forward to more...
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Webcasts
Putting "Management" Into Your Requirements Management
While requirements engineering and requirements tools have become widely adopted, the number of software project failures attributed to poor requirements management remains high. Metrics that focus on requirements engineering are widely available, yet often only the most advanced and mature organizations actually use them. Requirements metrics are key indicators of...
Tags: Software Project, Distributive Software, Requirements Engineering, Requirements Metric
White papers 2006-09-06
Requirements Management and Visual Studio Team System
Failures to define, communicate, or validate business requirements are the root causes of many software-project delays, overruns, and failures. There is a growing realization in the industry of the importance of proper development of requirements from every level in the organization. Microsoft Visual Studio Team System, along with Visual Studio...
Tags: Team, Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft Development Tools, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development
White papers 2008-09-01
Requirements Management Practices for Developers
The goal of this paper is to illustrate the important requirements management role developers play on successful software project teams. Additionally, the paper will provide requirements management implementation tips that developers can apply to make their teams more successful in delivering the right solution to their customers.
Tags: Developer, Team, IBM Corp., Team Management, Management
White papers 2002-05-16
What is a good Requirements Management tool?
I am looking for a good Requirements Management tool to pilot on a medium-sized project with a fast learning curve. Requirements will cover HW and SW, and need to trace through a couple of sub-system levels before tracing to implementation. The number of choices are dizzying: CaliberRM, Doors,...
Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Requirements Management Tool
Q&A 2009-10-07
The role of integrated requirements management in software delivery
This paper discusses the critical role that integrated requirements management can play in helping to ensure that your business goals and IT investment are continuously aligned - whether you are sourcing, integrating, building or maintaining software.
Tags: Software, IBM Corp., Tools & Techniques, Purchasing & Procurement, Strategy, Management, Business Operations
White papers 2007-10-01
IBM Smarter Products Webcast:  The Payoff of Driving Requirements Management Across Product Development
Join our panel of experts from EADS, CareFusion, and Chrysler as they discuss their experiences in implementing a structured approach to requirements management based on IBM Rational software.
Tags: Webcast, IBM Corp., Product Development, Product Marketing, Strategy, Automotive, Research & Development, Business Operations, Marketing, Management
Webcasts 2009-12-08
QPack Free Testing Tool Test Management 5.3.1 (Windows)
QPack is an end-to-end solution for Application Lifecycle Management, containing all development lifecycle modules, such as market requirements, system specs, development, testing, and delivery. QPack ALM supports the marketing team, system architects, developers and testers by providing each team with professional tools suited to its specific needs and methodologies. QPack...
Tags: Medical Device, Microsoft Windows, Application Lifecycle Management, Tool, Orcanos Application Lifecycle Management, QPack, QPack ALM, Medical Device Software Development, QPack Medical Device Software Development, Healthcare, Software Development, Software/Web Development
Software downloads 2009-10-26
Managing Requirements Changes in SDLC
Requirements continuously change. This change is either because of incomplete and non-deterministic character of requirement that is caught as a defect during the reviews or testing stage or because the needs themselves change. While requirements present that dynamic nature, managing this change all through the software development lifecycle has an...
Tags: SDLC, Requirement, Product Development, Software Development, Change Management, Product Marketing, Development Tools, Strategy, Research & Development, Business Operations, Software/Web Development, Tools & Techniques, Management, Marketing
White papers 2004-09-11
Reducing Risk Through Requirements-driven Quality Management: An End-To-End Approach
When IT undertakes a development project, it contracts with the business which requirements will be fulfilled and when they will be delivered. No attorney would permit his client to sign a legal contract unless all the risks were known, yet IT departments often lack the ability to quantify and respond...
Tags: Risk, Hewlett-Packard Co., Information Technology, Strategy, Management
White papers 2007-05-01
Requirements Management: Identify, Specify, Track and Control Requirements Using a Standard Process
Requirements are an integral part of the development process connected through traceability with marketing specifications, analysis diagrams, design models, code files, test procedures and virtually every other project deliverable. The structure of product requirements usually lends itself well to organizing the design, implementation and test activities that follow. The mapping...
Tags: Product Requirement, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, Marketing Research, Office Suites, Software, Marketing
White papers 2003-08-21
Building an Effective Requirements Plan: Discover the Basics of Requirements Planning
Most business analysts don't want to deal with source code and difficult programming; they just want to manage the requirements quickly and easily. One of the simplest requirements management tools on the market is Rational RequisitePro. There are open source tools, too, that one might want to look into if...
Tags: Source Code, IBM Corp., Open Source
White papers 2008-09-16
Get IT Right the First Time - Requirements Definition, the Root of the Problem
More than 70% of IT projects that fail do so because of poor requirements management. But WHY is it so hard to get requirements right? The presenter share brand new research based on interviews with hundreds of clients to help IT managers understand how to become more effective at capturing...
Tags: Information Technology, Compuware Corp., Strategy, Management
Webcasts 2009-01-01
Requirements Whiteboard Reviewer Edition 1.1.2 (Windows)
Requirements Whiteboard is a system for structured requirements management, authoring, review, documentation, discussion and publication. The Reviewer Edition can be used standalone, but is intended for use alongside the comprehensive Author Edition. Version 1.1.2143.42822 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.
Tags: Consultant, Requirements Whiteboard, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software
Software downloads 2006-03-17
Lifecycle Quality Management; Infusing and Automating Quality at Every Phase
When one leave quality to the end, or as someone else's responsibility, it can result in applications that fail to meet the original goals, require costly rework or miss critical release dates. To prevent these problems, one need an advanced approach to managing overall quality throughout the software development lifecycle....
Tags: Software, Quality Management, Quality, Borland Software Corp., Software Development, Development Tools, Tools & Techniques, Software/Web Development, Management
Webcasts 2009-01-01
Critical success factors for information requirements gathering
Gathering intelligence before adopting new technologies can be the most difficult step in the process, often due to human errors and inconsistencies. This Auerbach report reveals the critical success factors for a requirements-gathering effort.By Douglas Havelka and Sooun LeeThe IS requirements-gathering process is a critical first step in the IS...
Tags: Strategy, Auerbach Analysis, management commitment, champion
Technical articles 2002-04-25
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