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Software Requirements Tools

Improve the rapid application development model for deployment readiness

Get a better understanding of the top three areas in IT to improve a rapid application development model. Expert Tom Nolle discusses the future of RAD and DevOps. Continue Reading
Select MAM tools with critical criteria in mind

An MAM tool should be selected based on comprehensive criteria that address security for personal devices with corporate data on them. Continue Reading
A five-step plan to capturing better application requirements

Defining software application requirements at a project's outset is still an issue. Learn how to build better application requirements. Continue Reading
Requirements review in Agile: Ensuring consistency and spotting defects

Agile testing teams can improve their requirements review process by ensuring consistency, carefully determining testability and spotting missing connections. Continue Reading
Optimizing requirements management: Working with Agile and Waterfall

Learn what can teams do to optimize requirements management when working within both Agile and Waterfall. Continue Reading

Contextual inquiry techniques in requirements gathering

Software consultant Nari Kannan writes about typical problems with requirements gathering and provides an outline of contextual inquiry techniques. Continue Reading
Requirements management collaboration with ALM tools

Software consultant Nari Kannan writes about features needed in software tools for requirements management and provides brief summaries of software tools available, both commercial and open source. Continue Reading
Product management: Using social media for requirements gathering

In this tip, requirements expert Scott Sehlhorst explores the many uses of social media and social networks for improving product management. Continue Reading
Social media: How savvy businesses are capitalizing on collaborative tools

In this article, industry experts offer their insights into how businesses can capitalize on the many uses of social media and collaborative tools. Continue Reading
Software requirements: Taking development efforts into account

In this tip, SSQ contributor Matt Heusser talks about using "desirements dialogues," which include development estimates, to help the team get the best bang for their development buck. Continue Reading
Agile requirements management: Six advantages of using the cloud

The Agile Manifesto states that individuals and interactions are preferred over processes and tools. Exploring how cloud-based environments facilitate this aspect, software consultant Nari Kannan explains six advantages of using such environments ... Continue Reading

Tools and techniques for tracking changes to software requirements

In this tip, requirements expert Sue Burk explains different techniques and tools that can be used to track changes to the requirement itself as well as changes to the attributes of the requirement. Continue Reading
Getting on the same page: How testers can help clarify requirements

Gathering accurate requirements is one of the biggest challenges of software development. There can be a big disconnect between what the users want and the software that gets developed. In this tip, Agile expert Lisa Crispin gives some helpful ... Continue Reading
Requirements tips for data-centric projects

Gathering requirements for data-centric projects presents a challenge. Business users may have trouble articulating the type of data needed to build a proper system and asking for changes late in the game can cause major project delays. In this tip,... Continue Reading
The value of visible requirements

Have you ever been in a situation where the project team is saying they're almost done, but there's no visibility into the status of the requirements? That's what SSQ contributor Chris McMahon was once up against. In this tip he describes the ... Continue Reading