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New Post 4/12/2012 3:12 AM
User is offline Jose
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Tools for documentation and requirements management 

Hi,

I am part of a Tools User Group that is evaluating a standard RE tool for implementation across our UK business. We currently have Doors 8.1 however it's out of date and only used by the half of the team that create declarative requirements. The other half of the team produce User Stories and manage their requirements in word. We are undertaking a large programme and the current solutions do not meet the requirements management job given the complexity of the work we are undertaking. We need a tool that we can use to document requirements and use for sign-off, and manage requirements right through the project process through test, compliance and traceability. Does anyone have any insights based on what they use?

Thanks Jo
 

 
New Post 4/12/2012 2:04 PM
User is offline Kimbo
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Re: Tools for documentation and requirements management 
Hi Jo, I use Enterprise Architect from Sparx Systems. It will do what you want. Others will have their favourites. Kimbo
 
New Post 4/13/2012 6:45 AM
User is offline Tony Markos
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Re: Tools for documentation and requirements management 

Hi:

Don't first look at tools.  I repeat, do not first look at tools.  First, think Agile.  And remember, that Agile is not just about minimual documentation, it is just as much about quality documentation.  In other words think about requirements documentation that captures the essentials and only the essentials.  

Additionally, Agile says forget about long winded text based requirements.  Instead focus on requirements at higher level of abstraction, and then let the developers hash out the details.   Think modeling.

 The real need - especially in complex projects - is not so much about capturing the indivdual behaviroal requirements, but the essential interrelationships between higher level requirements. This puts the stongest empahsis on graphical requirements gathering techniques that capture these essential interrelationships.  User Stories fail here.

Also, to handle complexity, the BA needs to be guided in accopmplishing a logical, natural decomposition.  The typical sledge hammer approarch to systems decomposition will not work with complex systems.  User stories fail to guide in proper decomposition.

After such consideration THEN think tools.  My favorite tools, by the way, are pencils, paper, white out, and scotch tape - especially for complex systems.

Tony

 

 
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