This common approach guarantees full transparency and access to important project information for all team members – at any time and any place. Each stakeholder can get his own task-specific view onto these project information. Additionally, we have implemented some tools to support the communication between all stakeholders (e-mail based discussions, task management).
Use Axure’s specification software to effectively document and communicate your designs with clients, colleagues, and stakeholders. Save time and money by instantly generating a customizable functional specification in Microsoft Word format.
Get Started Fast – An easy setup and intuitive interface make launching projects a snap.
SharePoint Powered – Security trimming beyond documents, so users only see what they need.
Track Results – Stay informed with SharePoint dashboards and notifications.
Centralised repository – CaliberRM provides a central, secure repository for project requirements. By storing requirements in a common repository, the most current data is available to the people who need it, whenever they need it.
Adaptable – CaliberRM is designed to bring speed and agility to the requirements process.Whether your process is highly structured or very agile, CaliberRM can be customized to support the way your teams work. It is easily customized directly through the GUI or by using helpful wizards; complex and/or proprietary scripting languages are not required.
Requirements traceability across the lifecycle – CaliberRM has an open architecture that permits requirements to be linked to a variety of artifacts across the lifecycle.Whether it be a source code file or change request managed in Borland StarTeam, a test case or test set managed in Mercury interactive TestDirector, or a task from Microsoft Project, CaliberRM can link requirements to the appropriate artifacts.
Impact analysis throughout the application lifecycle – Multiple methods of traceability visualization help users immediately understand the scope of analysis required to gauge the effect of a requirements change. Traces are easily created using drag and drop and can link assets in multiple systems.
Online glossaries to standardise and define terminology – Glossaries can also be used to define ambiguous and untestable terms Â— words that donÂ’t belong in requirements. CaliberRM helps to refine requirements on the way in, so they don’t become costly defects in later stages.
IMPROVE COLLABORATION – CaliberRM provides an enterprise repository that delivers simultaneous, secure, and live requirements data for all projects. Enjoy using the flexibility of rich-text formatting and embedded images and tables to express requirements in a way that makes the most sense for your organization.
EXPAND YOUR VISION WITH DATAMART – CaliberRM Datamart is a powerful business intelligence solution that provides managers with dashboard-style reporting to measure, track, and analyze the efficiency and effectiveness of the requirements management process.
MAKE MORE ACCURATE PREDICTIONS – CaliberRM ESTIMATE Professional includes powerful requirements-based estimation capabilities that help project managers plan project scope, schedule, and resources throughout the software development lifecycle with greater accuracy.
ACCESS REQUIREMENTS FROM ANYWHERE – CaliberRM clients are architected to communicate efficiently via TCP/IP giving team members quick access to live requirements data from virtually anywhere, even with low bandwidth connections.
REDUCE LEARNING CURVES WITH EASY-TO-USE GUI – CaliberRM makes it easier for stakeholders from many backgrounds to collaborate Â— increasing the amount of usable knowledge available for developers. In the event of staff turnover, CaliberRM makes it easier for new employees to get up to speed quickly, helping to reduce risks to the project schedule.
RECEIVE NOTIFICATION OF IMPORTANT CHANGES – Immediate notification tied to changes of project requirements means responsible users wonÂ’t be surprised by changes that are not evident until later in the development cycle.
FOCUS ON WHATÂ’S IMPORTANT – Prioritize requirements by sorting and filtering on cost, priority, or other key attributes within the spreadsheet views. Views can be created based on data collected to make the management of requirements easier.
VIEW COMPREHENSIVE AUDIT TRAIL AND CHANGE HISTORY – Every change in CaliberRM is automatically audited. Each change creates a unique history record, highlighting the differences between one version of a requirement and another, including the reason for the change.
LEVERAGING BASELINING TO MEASURE VOLATILITY – Since CaliberRM captures versions of each requirement, it also enables baselining – the versioning of a whole set of requirements with each requirement at its specific version. This baseline provides the capability to both electronically sign and view a snapshot of requirements at a point in time. By comparing baselines in a handy side-by-side report, users can immediately see where volatility, modifications, additions, and deletions have taken place.
• A multi-tier, client-server architecture that is scalable from a single user to hundreds of users with optimal performance and scalability.
• A high-performance, embedded enterprise database is included. All the project data, documents, and other artifacts are stored in a single, centrally-controlled location.
CaseComplete helps you gather, organize, and share use cases and requirements. The tool’s strength is its ease of use. Within minutes, you can install it, write a use case, and generate a clear, good-looking requirements document.
HP Quality Center is an enterprise-ready solution whose native capabilities are growing with each release. In addition, our open APIs allow us to enrich our solution through integrations and ensure that HP proactively supports the complex eco-system of processes, tools and applications that our customers need to manage. Indeed, industry analysts argue that HP’s Quality Center is already a disruptive force in the marketplace and will continue to be an even stronger alternative to incumbent requirements management offerings.
IBM Rational RequisitePro provides requirements management, traceability, and impact analysis capabilities for project teams, primarily suited to organizations creating application software. See IBM Rational Requirements Composer to see the ‘next generation RequisitePro’.
IdeaShare enables soliciting and harvesting of ideas, suggestions, and feedback to improve products and services. IdeaShare’s collaboration-centric features empower users to create, evolve, and ranking ideas. Organizations can crowd-source ideas from their communities of customers, partners, or employees. IdeaShare’s novel approach to idea management is simpler, faster, and produces better results.
iRise Studio – iRise Studio is a powerful, easy-to- use application definition solution used by business experts to quickly assemble functionally rich simulations of Web-based applications in a matter of hours. iRise Studio is used for new custom applications, portals, enhancements to existing systems and Web-based front-ends to packaged software. Business people can quickly lay out the page flow of simulations and create high fidelity pages that precisely mimic not only the look and feel of the final application, but the business logic and data interactions as well.
iRise iDoc – Stakeholders can have fun with application simulations that encourage dialog, drive consensus and quickly iterate to specifications that act as visual blueprints for what to build. Business analysts publish simulations as interactive definition documents, or iDocs, then present them to stakeholders for review. Rather than pages and pages of text and screen shots, stakeholders now have an interactive, functionally rich preview of how the final application will look and behave. They can test drive the simulation as if it were the real thing. Walkthrough notes help guide the review process and feedback comments can be sent to the business analyst with the click of a button.
Leap SE is an advanced requirements engineering CASE tool that produces object-oriented models directly from a system requirements repository or specification (SRS). By translating English into logical models for software development, Leap SE achieves RAD from the source, dramatically shortening the systems analysis phase of software projects. Project managers can reduce their systems engineering staffing needs with Leap SE, while promoting the development of quality requirements. Twenty-two templates and a Requirement Builder are provided for fast and flexible composition. Every time a new requirement is saved, Leap SE’s object model database is updated to reflect the new entities, relationships, attributes and methods. From this database, a directory of header files can be generated at any time to give software engineering a much-needed head start on design. Moreover, it’s just one small step to importing these header files into a reverse-engineering CASE tool to quickly produce a host of class diagrams. Leap SE is fully integrated with MS Access. Data model output, in the form of SQL, can be run in the RDBMS to produce entity-relationship diagrams, tables, and relationships complete with referential integrity.
Notes is not a requirements tool as such, but is very effective place to store requirements specifications. Set up a new Notes database for each specification, and give access to all the stakeholders. Use DocLinks to link to documents that have some relation to your specification – interview notes, meeting minutes. Attach the function point counts to the requirements, then link each of them to the appropriate design documents. Release 5 now includes a bookmark bar that creates quick links to frequently needed information and support for a universal Internet mailbox – whether they’re on a Lotus Domino server or hosted by an Internet Service Provider (ISP).
DocumentCommunication is easy with Optimal Trace’s automated document generation and a selection of pre-canned templates that are fully customizable to your company—specific standards and processes to ensure a high-quality finish. Multiple formats mean all stakeholders can communicate in a way that suits each best (Word, Excel, html). Edits can be easily reversed back into the main project to keep the repository and the document in sync. Complete projects can be exported to Microsoft Project, CSV files or other formats.
CollaborateOptimal Trace, the ultimate collaboration tool, provides a central secure repository for all project requirements and artifacts so the most current data is always available for live work or uploading for remote usage. Multiple users can work concurrently online and make real-time edits on the same project. Using Optimal Trace off line to capture users’ scenarios live on-site helps users see the project structure emerge. This functionality builds confidence and drives consensus and approval. The baseline capability facilitates review and final sign-off and also allows easy visibility of additions, deletions and amendments.
An exclusive innovation you won’t find elsewhere, Polarion LiveDoc™ – online structured specification documents, are fast becoming the way companies of all sizes gather, author, approve, validate, and manage requirements.
Grow into Polarion’s Test Management and/or enterprise ALM solutions that seamlessly tie in with your requirements data. Just add licenses to your installation… nothing to install or integrate.
Community Edition – Perfect for students, beginners, and other non-commercial users, this free edition is the ideal introduction to UML, complete with Java forward engineering.
Standard Edition – Aimed at analysts, this edition makes quick and easy work of designing and documenting models with Java reverse engineering, UMLdoc, and plug-in extensions.
Professional Edition – Developers will find a full suite of powerful features such as an Eclipse integration, Java roundtrip engineering, and code generation for many other languages.
Enterprise Edition – Teams of developers can use real-time collaboration functions and versioning coupled with standalone Java roundtrip engineering to develop software across the room or across the globe.
Embedded Enterprise Edition – Embedded system developers can use the team capabilities of the enterprise edition with c and c++ generation specifically designed for embedded systems, along with Java reverse engineering.
Competitive Product Positioning – QFD enables specific competitive positioning targets that are communicated throughout the organization and provides a shared focus for management and project team.
Product Portfolio Management – Application of QFD provides a unique opportunity to not only define what the current new product should be all about but also what constitutes better as technologies improves.
Technology Planning – QFD provides visibility to technology shortcomings and focus for future technology needs.
Timely progress communication (to support stage-gate process) – Each step in the QFD process produces the exact data needed for decisions to be made by management at each gate in the product development process.
Meaningful definition of Critical Parameters for DFSS process – The QFD process enables the project team to identify the most critical parameters needed to obtain the competitive positioning that will be critical for the success of the project.
Data driven decisions – The QFD process limits the reliance on subjective opinions to make key decisions by letting decisions be driven by data collected from customers.
Traceability of decisions and intent (requirements management) – The proper execution of QFD leaves an organization with traceability of requirements and design decisions all the way back to the initial targeted customer and business needs.
Market Opportunity Maps – Produce Market Opportunity Map reports identifying the best opportunities for product improvement.
Relationship Tree – Generate relationship tree diagrams showing measures for each requirement in a graphical tree and branch format.
Templates – Print out and work with blank chart templates which are useful as documents-in-progress during team meetings.
Printing Spreadsheets – Print out spreadsheets as they appear in QFDcapture.
RaQuest is short for ‘Requirement Adjustment Quest,’ reflecting our hope that it will make system development easier. The pronunciation of RaQ means ‘easy’ or ‘happy’ in Japanese.
ReqView is a simple to use requirements management tool in which you can capture structured requirements for a software or system product and manage traceability of design, tests and risks to the product requirements. ReqView is the solution for companies from medical, aerospace & defense, automotive and other industries that saves a lot of effort with documenting compliance with industry standards.
Flexibly configure your project documents and traceability. ReqView scales from agile SW development projects to complex system development project adopting V-Model methodology. Define custom link types enabling easier analysis of requirements traceability.
Capture a structured document in an easy-to-use tabular view displaying the document hierarchy, requirement description, attributes, discussion and traceability links. Describe requirements in a rich text editor, attach images, PDF files, or other documents.
Setup custom attributes for requirements, test cases and risks for your process. For instance, you can track requirements status, priority, target release or describe an acceptance criteria. Copy or move objects or whole sections. Edit selected attribute values at once.
Filter requirements matching an advanced logical condition evaluating requirement description, attributes and traceability links. Find a keyword by a full text search. Comment requirements and update their customer or supplier status.
Customize HTML report templates and generate reports preserving displayed columns, filter, sorting and navigable traceability links. Create MS Word documents with custom title page, table of contents and paragraph styles.
Link related requirements, tests, risks and other project information. Browse the requirement traceability matrix in the context of the source or target document structure. Display custom traceability columns with multi-level traceability information.
Adjust templates for multi-level traceability reports to match your custom layout. Analyze traceability information including important attributes of linked objects, such as user story acceptance or test status. Visualize end-to-end traceability between business needs, requirements, tests and risks.
Manage project risks using Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) or other risk management methodology. For each potential risk capture mitigation actions. Link project risks to the related high-level business or functional requirements.
Browse history of changes to track changed requirement attributes, comments or traceability links. Review changes between project versions in a unique side-by-side compare view. Manage project revisions in your favorite Version Control System (VCS).
Import existing documents from Word, Excel or import ReqIF files from IBM Rational DOORS.
Export a document into any structured text format, such as HTML, CSV, XML or JSON, with custom layout and formatting.
Work anywhere on any desktop PC or Mac. Open a shared project from a network drive, lock a document for exclusive edit and update it offline.
ReqView free version with limited features is available for download.
A unique user interface makes it possible to systematically consider vast numbers of combinations of circumstances. In its most powerful mode of use, Statestep supports modeling system behaviour as a finite state machine – in a simple form that is immediately understood by all reviewers and allows for easy annotation with informal comments or notes.
The power of TopTeam can be explained by the integral design that looks beyond just requirements. The easy to use tool, with rich features “off the shelf”, ensures requirements are really used by all disciplines that contribute to achieving the common objectives.
The Verification Studio (Formerly called Requirements Quality Analyzer – RQA) allows you to define and manage the V&V of the SOI, System element or any kind of development work-product (requirements, SysML models, MODELICA models, etc.) by measuring, calculating and (eventually) improving their Quality. Poor quality of work-products during the concept and design phases of a project leads to rework, extra costs, delays and, if not detected, severe consequences. A tool to automate the routine quality inspection and analysis of many types of work-products minimizes the cost of quality appraisals, while dramatically reducing the costs of poor quality.
VisibleThread develops document content analysis software that identifies defects and streamlines document compliance. The company’s analysis software enables users to scan MS Office and PDF docs for liability concerns, automatically create compliance documents, coordinate and track changes from multiple stakeholders, and provide oversight throughout proposal development and IT delivery projects.
VisibleThread can provide specific support for those promoting Volere, by representing the template as a ‘structure outline’ in the solution. This means that docs can be proactively checked to ensure certain sections are filled in while helping guide authors (using an MS Word plug-in) to fill in content according to the core sections as recommended by the template.
Intuitive models allow you to quickly capture your “current state” metrics as a baseline against which future changes can be evaluated. These “live” dynamic visual models support on-going strategic planning and control within the organization. They can also be used to provide multimedia training, executive information systems, project planning, development, and beyond.