How do you go about the requirements gathering phase? Does anyone have a good set of guidelines or tips to follow? What are some good questions to ask the stakeholders? I am currently working on a new project and there are a lot of unknowns. I am in the process of coming up with a list of questions to ask the stakeholders. However I ca...
I am looking for free and/or open source requirements management tools. Does anyone have any experience with these tools and can recommend one or two? Thanks. ...
I'm interested in data/information/knowledge management, so I am building an application for this purpose in an effort to understand the concepts better. However, since I'm building this for myself (and perhaps for others in the future), I have to play the role of customer/client as well as requirements analyst (in addition to software e...
We are currently evolving our development processes in an effort to become CMMI compliant (we will start with level 2, and move up from there). We are trying to locate a tool that is inexpensive (or free) that will allow us to develop requirements in the spirit of CMMI. In other words, we need to be able to enter our requirements, trac...
An initial draft of requirements specification has been completed and now it is time to take stock of requirements, review the specification. Part of this process is to make sure that there are no sizeable gaps in the specification. Needless to say that the gaps lead to highly inaccurate estimates, inevitable scope creep later in the pro...
There are many tools out there for writing and managing requirements, but are there any good ones out there for reviewing them? I'm not talking about managing reviews, but automation tools that look for common requirement blunders (such as using negative requirements, or ones that are worded in a way to make testing difficult). More ...
I'm looking for a tool that will help with gathering and maintaining requirements (most probably use case specifications) I have used Rational Requisite Pro in the past and found it was OK but no longer have access to it Is there anything else I could use? ...
Many software developers probably would agree that estimation of implementation costs is one of the most complex SDLC issues, even when a good requirements specification is available as a pre-condition. Now, what about estimation of the cost of developing that requirements specification itself? Would anyone care to share their experien...
In the situation of having a project initiated by a marketing or sales team, how can we capture the not so obvious requirements that the project be marketable, or even better, self marketing? In many cases the marketing/sales team can hardly enumerate the functional specs of what the project should do, let alone describing features to ...
What would you generally recommend for software developement? Which combination do you use or would you recommend? I assume that tools are needed for Version control, issues/bugs/task, Release management, Requirement management. Tools for Test management and Project management should be accounted for as well, I guess. Did I forget anythi...
I want to start learning about software requirement management and I want to read some book to make me have some ground knowledge about it. I have search for some books on Amazon and found that it have 2 popular books about software requirement management. I have listed it below. Managing Software Requirements: A Use Case Approach Mana...
what project management tools / softwares do you use and how does it supports managing the requirements, some kind of traceability to the implementation, bugs, etc. ? ...
Imagine I place each requirement as a feature on my bugtracker. Would it be a nice idea? Are there better tools? ...
Are there any websites or resources which have templates/examples of different types of documents which would be produced during requirements gathering sessions? Something like Requirements Analysis System Requirements Functional Specifications Nonfunctional Specifications Design specification Validation Test Plans ...
My company has been using JIRA as a requirements tracking tool as well as a bug tracker, and it's been working pretty well while we've been working on one project at a time. We now have a scenario where we have three different project proposals whose requirements partially overlap (e.g. requirement 1 applies to projects A and B, require...
During various projects, I needed to make sure that the use case model I developed during the analysis phase is covering the requirements of the project. For that, I was able to have some degree of traceability between requirement statements (uniquely identified) and use cases (also uniquely identified). In some cases, enabling traceabil...
I've seen some complex, enterprise tools for requirements like Rymatech's FeaturePlan -- is there something that enables collaboration and best practices for putting Business-Readable, Domain-Specific (or natural language) requirements and acceptance criteria in place? ...
I feel like I'm beating my head against a brick wall sometimes. I was just talking to someone in my company about the need to encourage our [company's internal] client to put thought into their requirements up front and make a bigger effort to ensure that they're fixed before providing them to my development team to start on. The argum...
Are there any requirements management plugins out there for Trac? I checked the list on Trac-Hacks and didn't see anything I'm picturing some functionality like IBM's DOORS system. Basic features include revisioning and change control of requirements, requirements baselining etc. Update: I suppose I could just use the wiki portion of ...
Hello, Within our Agile / Scrum team there is the idea to start using VersionOne as the project planning tool. My question is, can it also handle the issues (defects; new feature requests; improvements; patches) that come in? Meaning can it also replace a issue-tracking system like BugZilla? In a issue tracking system, many people (deve...