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I’m writing this post to provide a shortlist of requirements management tools – i.e. tools to capture and manage requirements for your projects/products in a structured, collaborative fashion.
There are a large number of requirements tools available in the market, too large to fit into any list like this! So, this post will focus only on tools I personally have good experience with, or have heard very good things from close friends in the industry…
In this quick post, I’d like to define the term “Requirements Management Plan”.
Simply put, “Requirements Management Plan” refers to:
A document (or set of documents) that define how the requirements for a software project will be managed.
Requirement management plan outlines the guidelines for creating requirements documents, types and attributes of requirements to be included in such documents, as well as the processes for change control and requirements traceability.
Here’s some more info about requirements management plans.
I’m often asked “Are there any free, open source requirements management tools?”
This question is often asked by friends whose companies are using tools like Word, wikis or bug trackers to manage requirements.
In this post, I will list a few free requirements management software tools – and discuss the pros and cons of such tools. [Read more…]
In my previous post I discussed different types of software requirements and how they are used. I covered five different types of requirements.
In this post, I will walk you through the different types of requirements document and what they mean.
Before I jump into it, I gotta tell you – there are numerous types of “requirements document” out there, we’re just going to cover the most popular ones in this post! Okay, let us get going… [Read more…]
In my last two posts I covered What are software requirements and the Why and who of requirements.
Did you know there are many different types of software requirements? Okay, you probably did! In this post, I’ll walk you through the most common types of software requirements.
Ready to get rolling? [Read more…]
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