The importance of requirements management

The following post discusses the importance of requirements management:

• The requirements management is the “technical language” that collaborates customers, marketing, development and QA

• Gathering, documenting, verifying, and managing requirements throughout the lifecycle ensures satisfying customer needs

• Requiremnts management assures finding defects earlier in the development process

• Keep product definition up-to-date and

• Communicate changes to the R&D

• Ensures that iterative refinements and unanticipated changes are adequately dealt with during the developemnt lifecycle

• Reduce communication overhead with customer and reduce number of patches delivered to customers for each release