Talk:Requirements management

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[edit] What is Requirements management?

This article seems to be more about Requirements engineering or Requirements analysis. Requirements management is more about managing the requirements, that includes controlling and tracking the requirements, mostly after they have been created in the first place. Requirement management includes things like change management and traceability. Reference: Pressman, Scott. Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach. Sixth Edition, International, p 180. McGraw-Hill Education 2005.

82.181.111.113 (talk) 17:57, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Tools

In an effort to reduce the link spam any commercially related article tends to attract, it seems best to limit the listed tools to those that have articles on Wikipedia. This seems the best way to allow editors to assess the notability of each tool and relevance to the subject and ameliorates the risk that non-notable software will be spammed here. As such, I'm moving the following links here from the main article. Please provide justification here if you feel it's necessary to reinsert to the main page.

- Aagtbdfoua 01:22, 14 April 2007 (UTC)


Maybe someone can add the link 'http://www.volere.co.uk/tools.htm' to this article? Thanks, Hablizzel

The "Tools" section started looking like an ad board. I've moved all the ads here:

The desktop tools include Serena® Dimensions® RM, MKS Integrity from MKS Inc., Borland® Caliber® Analyst, Telelogic's DOORS, IBM's Requisite Pro,Geensys's REQTIFY, TechnoSolutions TopTeam, SparxSystems Japan's RaQuest, or Accord's ReMa or Goda Software's Analyst Real Team System (ARTS). Some of these tools allow local or global team collaboration. Web-based tools include Contour and GatherSpace.com that operate as a SaaS. Another tool that assists businesses undertake Requirements Management is the Bi-Directional Requirements Gathering Mesh Topology developed by Nathan Hill in the late 1990s. This tool helps organizations define and build relationships between areas of their businesses to ensure all engineering requirements are accurately captured and mapped to business processes. There exist also an expert system which allows authors writing requirements to improve the quality of their customer and supplier specifications, independently and with the help of a tool. It is a freeware tool called DESIRe (Dynamic Expert System for Improving Requirements)

and put a link to the INCOSE tool database site. It provides survey responses on the capabilities of all responding tool sets. I looked at the Volere site, but it appears to be commercial. ComputerGeezer (talk) 00:14, 29 February 2008 (UTC)