Benjamin JanesSecurity Cooperation Project Manager| Booz Allen HamiltonColorado Springs, Co, United States
Our organizations has thousands of customer requirements in multiple, individual spreadsheets. There's got to be a better way...you spend days justifying your business case through requirements traceability - and then as you decompose the requirements into work packages & activities - the requirements traceability matrix becomes unmanageable. We often find ourselves competing internally with mutiple project fulfilling the same or nearly identical customer requirements because of spreadsheet version control...there's got to be a better way! Saving Changes...
Thousands of requirements? Maybe a database...or cut some requirements ;-) Saving Changes...
Sergio Luis ConteHelping to create solutions for everyone| Worldwide based OrganizationsBuenos Aires, Argentina
Tools must be selected based on your requirements management process. If not you are adquiring a nightmare instead a tool. Today I am using Caliber RM. I used lot of tools because I worked in some of the companies that sells tools. If you ask me, the tool it was more usefull for me is Sparx Systems tool.
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Jul 29, 2018 2:38 AM
Benjamin Janes
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Thanks for your response and advice.
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Drew CraigSr. Agile & Product Coach| VanguardPhiladelphia, Pa, United States
There are certainly better options than the defacto MS Excel solution. SharePoint provides nice solutions as it primarily is a collection of lists and sits on top of MS SQL Server with the ability to integrate with MS Project. JIRA also comes to mind. It is possible with an import function from requirements gathering in an excel template into JIRA for execution.
There are plenty of options. But like Sergio points out, the organization has to determine what the requirements and integration needs are to determine the right tool. Saving Changes...
The combination of JIRA and Confluence is a common one for companies adopting agile delivery approaches, but you'll need to put in some guidelines to ensure consistent structure between teams as to how requirements get captured as these tools are very flexible.
For something a bit more structured, you could look at Blueprint...
Kiron
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Jul 29, 2018 2:39 AM
Benjamin Janes
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Thanks for your advice. We're looking at both process and enabling tools.
Jira was a good enough for me to start with. Saving Changes...
Benjamin JanesSecurity Cooperation Project Manager| Booz Allen HamiltonColorado Springs, Co, United States
Jul 28, 2018 9:03 AM
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Tools must be selected based on your requirements management process. If not you are adquiring a nightmare instead a tool. Today I am using Caliber RM. I used lot of tools because I worked in some of the companies that sells tools. If you ask me, the tool it was more usefull for me is Sparx Systems tool.
Thanks for your response and advice. Saving Changes...
Benjamin JanesSecurity Cooperation Project Manager| Booz Allen HamiltonColorado Springs, Co, United States
Jul 28, 2018 10:18 AM
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Benjamin -
The combination of JIRA and Confluence is a common one for companies adopting agile delivery approaches, but you'll need to put in some guidelines to ensure consistent structure between teams as to how requirements get captured as these tools are very flexible.
For something a bit more structured, you could look at Blueprint...
Kiron
Thanks for your advice. We're looking at both process and enabling tools. Saving Changes...
Benjamin JanesSecurity Cooperation Project Manager| Booz Allen HamiltonColorado Springs, Co, United States
Thanks for the inputs - we're looking at process and tools. It's a real mess however we look at it. Saving Changes...
RAJESH K LProject Manager, PMP| Bharat Electronics, Bengaluru, IndiaBengaluru, Karnataka, India
Agree with points made by Sergio, Andrew & Kiron Saving Changes...
