[Sigia-l] Best Tool for Requirements Capture and Management

[Louise Hewitt]

I still keep coming back to excel.

You can share it with anyone on the planet,

it's easy to configure matrix etc. to capture / express what you need to track and communicate, but keep them all collected within a workbook

it has a universal comments functionality that tracks who wrote what and can be hidden

it isn't internet-connection-dependent

did I mention you can share with anyone on the planet.

Most of the difficulties I've found with projects have come from not having clearly agreed requirements, that means having them considered from every angle. The business will need certain things, the users will want certain things, the dev teams will need actionable use cases. 

I use excel as my record of all this, modifying the way I communicate the info (ppt, wireframe, spec) as necessary, but alway making sure that the excel 'bible' is driving these deliverables and up to date.

Lou.


On 21 Jan 2011, at 00:21, Tom Donehower wrote:

> Thoughts on best tool for requirements capture and management? Looking at
> Pivotaltracker.com. Can anyone share their experience with this or any other
> tool? General workflow will be something like this:
> 1. Identify high level user requirements
> 2. Write user stories/use cases for each requirement
> 3. Translate into wireframes and func. spec
> 4. Change everything at last minute;-)
> 
> Best,
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