Developers often want to freeze software requirements following some initial work and then proceed with development, unencumbered by those pesky changes. This is the classic waterfall paradigm. It doesn’t work well in most situations.
Business analysts and managers sometimes ask me how long it will take to “do requirements” on their next project.
One of the biggest challenges product development teams face is simply how to decide what product to build.
Requirements as a part of a product development lifecycle play a very important role in attempting to reduce or at least mitigate the tensions between quality, schedule, cost in product development.
Adopting these four best practices around modern requirements management and requirements traceability will help your team ensure product quality, decrease time-to-market, and achieve regulatory compliance.
Products are getting smarter, and development teams need intuitive, powerful requirements management solutions to manage that rising complexity.
A recent report from Forrester Research, “Now Tech: Agile Requirements Management Tools, Q2 2018,” outlines the state of the market for Agile RM solutions and lays out the questions customers should ask when selecting the right requirements solution for their space.
As 2019 gets further underway, we’re thinking about the changes we can expect from the requirements management space this year. To get a feel for requirements management trends in 2019 and beyond, we spoke with three requirements experts at Jama Software.
We asked three leading requirements experts — with fingers firmly on the pulse of product development — for their predictions on the future of requirements.
How should you go about questioning requirements identified at the beginning of a project to determine whether they should make it into the final product?
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