OK let’s have a look at some other parts of the Swiss army knife. After the successful post about idea management it’s time to explain how to do requirements management … with the same application.


Requirements hell index

We got a test for you. Do any of the following statements apply to your analysis, development and/or test processes?
 

• Do you copy your table of contents from your MS Word document to a spreadsheet to track the activities on the different parts of your requirements specification: stakeholders, priorities, cost, benefit, contact persons, remarks?
• Do you need a formal way to know which functional requirements are not yet covered by system requirements?
• Do you need to find system requirements that have no formal relation to user requirements?
• Do you also have a hard time understanding the impact of a user requirement on one or more system requirements or vice versa?
• The more statements above apply to you, the higher your ‘requirements hell index’. Here is a solution.

The goal of a requirements management tool is to support the requirements management process.
 

• Document
• Analyze
• Prioritize and agree
• Controlling change or in other words: traceability
• Communicate to relevant stakeholders

TenForce supports all your requirements management activities in a pragmatic but flexible way. TenForce does not impose a method or is not related to any vendor of development/configuration management solutions. It comes pre-configured with everything you need to manage the complex multi-dimensional jigsaw that requirements make up.

In addition TenForce allows you to manage centrally and dynamically actions issues, questions, actions, decisions, risks, meeting minutes … All this related to your requirements management process and accessible through one and the same application!
A hierarchical list of requirements with relevant attributes.



Managing an “individual” requirement.


 

•  Overview: Your customized form to manage requirements information.
•  Solution: Description of the expected solution.
•  Links: Link to the system requirements that implement the user requirement.
•  Child items: The sub-requirements of this main requirement.
•  Comments: Allow free forum-like comments.
•  Attachments: Attach documents, links, pictures, …
•  History: Browse through all changes.

 
See how system requirements implement user requirements


 
Moreover, we offer
 

•  Excel-based reporting.
•  Bi-directional link between user requirements & system requirements.

 
And on top of that you can link test cases to every requirement. Thus building an end to end requirement management and verification solution.