Does your requirements management tool have all that it needs?

Enterprises are often on the look-out for that perfect requirements management tool that can meet all their demands effectively and also tackle all issues efficiently. Here is a quick checklist of queries that can help enterprises in their quest for that optimized requirements management tool.

• Does your requirements tool allows you to create multiple user-defined or custom fields for specific requirements?
• Can it define and implement processes for requirements and also include your specific definition of a “completed process”?
• Can the requirements tool prioritize attributes in a structured and dynamic way?
• Is it flexible enough to be able to accommodate different requirements management philosophies?
• Does the tool allow requirements traceability links to be setup between changes and other related requirements?
• Can it easily accommodate for non-conformance of different categories?
• Can it define a workflow for requirement revision process within the products?
• Does the tool also offer ways and means to keep track of the costs for each requirement?
• Does it efficiently show interdependence between several requirements?
• Can the tool also show a visual hierarchy of requirements?
• Can it show different views of requirements?
• Can your tool keep a ready track of who edited a change to the requirements and when?
• Does it support traceability among different entities?
• Does your tool also allow viewing of the original creator of a requirement?
• Is it possible to conduct an impact analysis?
• Can you trace given requirements to design and source file in version control history with your requirements management tool?
• What sort of reporting features does the IT Service Management tools have?
• Can it help create HTML, crystal reports?
• Can it report on a predicted schedule that is driven from estimated effort as compared to actual effort?
• Can it assist in producing marketing requirements documents, impact reports, version reports, roadmap reports and also progress reports?
• Can it define different types of tasks that may be based on different types of activities, priorities and any no of custom fields?
• Does it allow for assignment of estimated efforts to different tasks?
• Does the requirements management tool allow for execution of requirement management process to be monitored?
• Can it schedule tasks by way of using wait nodes, join nodes, delay nodes or by way of using policies?
• Does it allow for a communication process to exist between the developer and the QA within the context of a given task?

Hopefully the above-mentioned queries will make it easy for enterprises to opt for an optimized requirements management tool.


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