Thursday, March 5, 2009

140 words - The purpose of requirements management tools

The purpose of requirements management is to maximize the likelihood that an application will function as intended and deliver its projected value to the business. Forrester defines requirements management as: The storage of requirements, the tracking of relationships among requirements, and the control of changes to individual requirements and groups of requirements.

Requirements management is both a discipline and a category of tools. Business analysts, business customers, product managers, project managers, and developers use requirements management tools to increase the efficiency of their requirements management practices. The larger the development effort and the more granular the requirements are, the more important tool support is in making proper requirements management cost-effective. For this reason, firms in industries like aerospace and defense, telecommunications, and automotive have long used requirements management tools to support their embedded systems development efforts.

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