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Improve Software Quality & Reduce Project Risk –
Unify Requirements With the Development Lifecycle
When considering that 80 percent of software projects are at risk due to creeping requirements, the ability to manage requirements and requirements change is critical to mitigating project risk.
Address the primary causes of software project failure with requirements management. With MKS Integrity, software requirements can be captured and validated, then linked to downstream development and testing activities and managed to completion through a unified process across the application lifecycle.
Fostering collaboration between business users generating requirements, the developers and testers, MKS Integrity keeps all stakeholders informed of changes to requirements throughout the development process. Easily assess and address the impact of changes before they are implemented, and reuse requirements across projects and product lines to increase business agility, improve software quality and reduce project risk.
MKS Integrity for Requirements Management provides answers to address real business challenges:
- Have requirements changed in the last month? How can we be sure?
- How can our project teams leverage work done by other projects?
- How do we know the status of projects and whether our customers’ needs are being satisfied?
- How can we more easily collect customer requests, constraints, and standards to inform the requirements development process?
"In an upset, the three year-old requirements
management capabilities in MKS’s ALM solution turned in
the highest current offering score in our evaluation...
The product includes outstanding support for
Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel as requirements input
mechanisms and superior support for requirements reuse
(both core requirements management capabilities) in addition to great
strength in security, workflow, and reporting (all typical capabilities
of an ALM solution)."
- Forrester Research, The Forrester Wave: Requirements Management, Q2 2008
What Makes MKS Integrity for Requirements Management Unique
- Unified change management enables collaboration and automates communications
Project managers, business analysts, developers and testers benefit from process and workflow as well as authorization and assignment capabilities to control who, what, when and where change happens, and communicate the impact of that change, ensuring that all stakeholders stay in synch. - Speed time to market and leverage existing investments with true requirements reuse
Strategically reuse requirements, requirements documents and other software development assets maintaining genealogy, trace and change history at any point in the lifecycle to save time and money and increase quality and responsiveness across the product and project portfolio. - Over-deliver on expectations by connecting customer demands with business solutions
Complete traceability between customer requests and downstream requirements, tests and defects provides real-time status for decision-making and enables continuous feedback and expectation leveling between development and customer stakeholders. - Increase productivity, reducing the barriers to getting inputs and requirements into the system
Robust and deep integrations into productivity, elicitation and modeling tools and support for industry standards like Requirements Interchange Format (RIF) ensures that the authoring, capture and input of requirements can be done quickly and easily to inform downstream project efforts.
Resources for Requirements Management
White Paper: Requirements-Based Testing with MKS Integrity
Independent Report by Forrester Research: Selecting the Right Requirements Management Tool
Webinar featuring Forrester Research - "Bridging the Divide: Connecting Requirements to the Software Lifecycle for Greater Agility and Efficiency"
