[Sigia-l] Recommended tool for documenting requirements?

[Jonathan Baker-Bates]

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> Sent: 25 July 2006 15:56
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> Subject: [Sigia-l] Recommended tool for documenting requirements?
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Can anyone recommend a tool or method for documenting 
> requirements?  We've used Word and Excel in the past, but 
> we're finding that the size and scope of our projects these 
> days would benefit from a tool that offers more flexibility 
> (e.g., for resorting by priority, category, etc.) without 
> having to reinvent the wheel.  
> 
> Has anyone here had any luck with any off-the-shelf tools?  I 
> couldn't find any info on this in the archives, so am hoping 
> the group has some suggestions.
> 
> Thanks,
> Lisa Agustin
> Sr. Information Architect,
> Dynamic Diagrams

You may have looked at this already, but the big daddy of requirements
management tools is IBM's (formerly Rational's) RequisitePro:

http://www-306.ibm.com/software/awdtools/reqpro/

I've used it once, but it only comes into its own when you are managing
many hundreds of requirements, and have also drunk the RUP koolaid.
Worth a look though I'd say - it's nice in so far as it's low profile:
you use good ol' MS Word to write structured documents that look and
behave just like normal requirements doorstops, but under the hood
you're building a database which you can then slice and dice lots of
stuff out of.

Jonathan




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