The Essential Guide to Requirements Management and Traceability
Chapters
- 1. Requirements Management
- Overview
- 1 What is Requirements Management?
- 2 Why do you need Requirements Management?
- 3 Four Fundamentals of Requirements Management
- 4 Adopting an Agile Approach to Requirements Management
- 5 Conquering the 5 Biggest Challenges of Requirements Management
- 6 Three Reasons You Need a Requirements Management Solution
- 2. Writing Requirements
- Overview
- 1 Functional requirements examples and templates
- 2 Product requirements document template and examples
- 3 How to write system requirement specification (SRS) documents
- 4 Jama Software Requirements Advisor
- 5 How to Write an Effective Product Requirements Document
- 6 Functional vs. Non-functional requirements
- 7 What Are Non-Functional Requirements and How Do They Impact Product Development?
- 8 Characteristics of Effective Software Requirements and Software Requirements Specifications (SRS)
- 9 8 Do’s and Don’ts for Writing Requirements
- 3. Requirements Gathering and Management Processes
- 4. Requirements Traceability
- Overview
- 1 What is Requirements Traceability and Why Does It Matter for Product Teams?
- 2 How to Overcome Organizational Barriers to Live Requirements Traceability
- 3 Requirements Traceability, What Are You Missing?
- 4 Four Best Practices for Requirements Traceability
- 5 Requirements Traceability: Links in the Chain
- 6 What Are the Benefits of End-to-End Traceability During Product Development?
- 5. Requirements Management Tools and Software
- 6. Requirements Validation and Verification
- 7. Meeting Regulatory Compliance and Industry Standards
- 8. Project Management
- 9. Measuring Requirements
- Glossary
Writing Requirements
This chapter introduces helpful ways to approach writing requirements.
Requirements are the foundation of a smooth-running process and are the essential inputs to your mission-critical projects. Effectively managing the flow of changes and refinements early in your lifecycle will significantly reduce both quality issues downstream and the volatility that plagues so many projects.
Writing requirements and requirements management can appear to be a complex topic, but at its core, it’s a simple concept. It helps teams answer the question: Does everyone—from business leaders to product managers and project leaders to developers, QA managers and testers—understand what is being built and why?
When everyone is collaborating and has full context and visibility into the discussions, decisions, and changes involved in product development, they maintain high quality and almost always ensure success
In this chapter, we look at:
- Functional vs. Non-Functional requirements – and examples of both
- How to write effective product and software requirements
- Characteristics of excellent requirements
- Do’s and Don’ts for writing requirements