Category Archives: Requirements management software

Software used or designed to be used for managing requirements. We look at individual applications and what they can do, as well as features or use cases that drive what those applications should do.

Requirements Document Proliferation

By Scott Sehlhorst | January 20th, 2006

Too many companies don’t document their requirements.

Worse still, too many companies over-document their requirements.

Posted in Communication, Requirements, Requirements management software, Software requirements specification, Writing | Tagged conway's law, documentation, FRS, functional requirements specification, managing data, market requirements document, MRD, PRD, product requirements document, requirements spec, requirements specification, software requirements specification, SRS | 6 Comments

Managing requirements conversations

By Scott Sehlhorst | December 27th, 2005

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Posted in Communication, Consulting, Requirements, Requirements management software | Tagged conversation, documentation, elicitation, managing data, requirements elicitation, requirements management, seilevel | 2 Comments

Communicating a delivery schedule with use cases

By Scott Sehlhorst | December 22nd, 2005

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Posted in Communication, Consulting, Process Improvement, Project Management, Requirements, Requirements Models, Requirements management software, Use Cases | Tagged Communication, delivery schedule, managing data, use case analysis, use cases | 7 Comments

Consolodation in the RM Software space?

By Scott Sehlhorst | December 7th, 2005

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