Featured Whitepaper: 5 Tips on Traceability.
How-to Video: Learn Traceability and Impact Analysis.
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Learn how to use Contour to create trace relationships between requirements and other items, execute a traceability matrix, run impact analysis and other traceability reports.
Is tracing requirements really worth the effort?
Articles and resources for learning more about traceability.
In specific industries such as aerospace and medical devices, it's mandated. However, regardless of the industry you're in or the development process you use, traceability is a best practice that can benefit your tream greatly. Here's a list of 3rd-party resources and links to check-out to better understand the concepts, goals and value of doing traceability.- CMMI overview by SEI
- Traceability Matrix example by Joyce Ludwig
- Bidirectional Traceability by Linda Westfall
- Wikipedia definition of Traceability
- Requirements Traceability by Neville Turbet, Project Perfect
- Why Software Requirements Traceability Remains a Challenge
- Business Analysis Benchmark Study by IAG
- System Engineering - Top 4 Design Tips to Improve Profit Margins by Aberdeen
"Even if your products won't cause loss of life or limb if they fail, you should take requirements traceability seriously."
Karl Wiegers, consultant and author of "Software Requirements" by Microsoft Press
Sample templates for managing traceability manually.
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You can manage traceability manually using Microsoft Word or Excel documents. Here's a few free templates courtesy of industry experts that you can use.
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Automate traceability to accelerate development and improve quality.
If your projects have any level of complexity, automation can provide a huge boost to productivity, saving you time and money in the long run. Automation also minimizes the risks of human error, which is always possible despite the best intentions and most skillful staff.
"We've found that manual traceability with larger teams and projects is full of opportunity for human error, and can be extremely time consuming. Automating enables us to realize the value of traceability at a much lower cost and higher rate of accuracy."
Jonathan Babcock, business analyst and author of Practical Analyst blog
Ready to automate? Try Jama Contour.
Capture, discuss and manage all your requirements in one place.
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Don't waste another minute hunting through a 200-page requirements document for one requirement. With Contour, you have a fully Web-based, secure and centralized hub to capture, discuss and manage all scope-related items, from features and functional requirements to test cases and defects. |
Master traceability and keep it all connected.
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It's just easier when everything is connected. With powerful traceability and impact analysis, Contour tracks relationships between all the requirements and related items within your projects, so everyone understands the interdependencies. Now, your team will stay in sync and be immediately alerted when something changes. |
Take control of releases, scope and change requests.
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You either manage scope effectively, or it will manage you. Contour enables you to maintain control of your release plans by providing powerful release management and change control capabilities such as version history, baseline reports, change requests and full activities tracking. Now, you can hit your launch dates consistently. |
Automate your process and eliminate time-consuming tasks.
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Think about how much time your team loses manually updating documents and herding team members for status updates. With Contour, you'll cut development cycles in half simply by automating time-consuming tasks. You'll have consistent templates, instant search, reuseable data and automatically tracked changes. In addition, your specification documents and reports will always be up-to-date. |
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"Prior to Contour, requirements were captured in documents and lacked traceability and the ability to collaborate across complex project teams." Ryan Palmer, User Centered Design, Intel |
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