Choosing Requirement Tools

Accumulating and gathering requirement for a software development project might look like easy, but it is a job of huge responsibility that requires skills and years of experience and a thorough understanding of the software project. Requirement development occurs based on the project development, thorough analysis, elaboration, and refinement and last but not the least on actions that are required to be performed. Thus, instead of using just a general purpose tool for managing project requirement it is best to seek the help of requirement tools.

As the name suggests requirement management tools helps in managing the software development requirement in most effective manner. However, an organization can only reap the benefits of such management tools when carefully selected. Here are some considerations aimed to make the selection procedure simple yet effective.

There is no point investing in a tool which is complex to use. After all an organization invests in a tool to add pace to the workflow, remove hindrance and enhance the productivity. But when the tool itself becomes a hindrance because of the complexity to operate, then the entire investment would be a waste. Hence, ease-of-use must not be underestimated.

Requirement is such an aspect where change is inevitable and hence, the selected tool must have customizable feature to manage the requirement according to the software development project. On the other hand the requirement management tool must be able to fit in the present infrastructure of the organization and not the other way around. A customizable tool has the potentiality to prove to be beneficial in the long-run thereby yielding expected ROI.

Calculating the total cost of requirement management tool is a must before finalizing the deal with the vendor. An organization should talk with the vendor about the hidden costs like implementation charges, maintenance charges, support charges, providing training or other similar cost to know the total cost.

Vendors make big claims that their tools have features that would support an organization’s requirement management thoroughly. One of the best ways to get the real picture is through the trial versions of the tool. It helps the organization to understand the real performance of the tool based on the real scenario.

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Requirement Management Tools - Ensure Your Organization Documents

A requirement is mainly a capability to which a project outcome actually conforms. Requirements management is a continuous process throughout a project which includes the approach of documenting, analyzing, tracing, prioritizing and agreeing on requirements. In addition, it is a practice to control change and communicate to relevant stakeholders.  Requirement management is necessary in every project to ensure an organization documents, verifies and meets the needs and expectations of its customers as well as stakeholders. The practice of Requirements management becomes successful with the effective Requirement Management Tools. These components begin with the analysis of the objectives of the organization. Requirements management is also vital for sustaining planning for requirements, integrating requirements and the organization for working with them.

Requirements management is essentially communication between the project team members and stakeholders. However, sometimes one class of requirements seems to override another, this is prevented by constant communication among members of the development team is critical. Rommana Company offers Requirement Management Tools.  It develops good software engineering discipline and best practices in project management.

Requirement management is a full integration and traceability expert, between all project artifacts and activities. The process started with complete collaboration between all team members throughout all project activities. There is accessibility of all project artifacts and activities by all team members anywhere round the clock. The methodologies would guide team members to follow best practices throughout all lifecycle phases. A project management framework that is driven by features being delivered Total agility and flexibility to respond to continuously changing business needs and systems behavior.
 
Requirement Management Tools by Rommana Software offers combines most features supported by most requirement tools. The integration of the Requirement Management component with all other Rommana components through the common repository makes it possible for Rommana to provide complete traceability of requirements to Use Cases, Test Cases, Scenarios, Issue Reports and many other project artifacts. However, this traceability is not supported by other requirement tools.

Using the Requirement Management component in Rommana the employee  can perform the following activities:
• Define functional requirements, quality requirements and any other type of requirements as it fits within your project
• Define tasks, risks, and actions for a requirement
• Define use cases and use case scenarios for a requirement
• Define all other types of scenarios for a requirement
• Import requirements from Microsoft Word or Excel files into Rommana
• Move requirements between release and between sprints within releases
• Maintain different versions of a requirement for different releases of the system

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