Requirement Management - Software Planner

Software Planner can track the workflow of your requirements, allowing you to analyze the number of requirements that are new, awaiting approval, awaiting estimate, approved, rejected, closed, etc. These workflow states are fully configurable.

Organizing your Requirements

Software Planner allows you to organize your Requirements any way you wish. For example, you may consider organizing Requirements by software release, agile sprint, etc. Or you may decide to do it by product line, software release, etc. When adding new requirements, it is a good idea to use a numbering scheme that will make sets of requirements easy to identify. A common way to do this is to come up with a standard naming convention.

Integrating Requirements with Project Management

If you plan to use the project management features of Software Planner, you can easily integrate the requirements area with the project management area. A good approach is to define your requirements for your software release, then create a project plan for the software release.

Creating Requirement Documents

It is a good idea to create a requirement document that describes the feature being developed and contains prototypes that can be used by the team to fully understand how the feature is to be implemented. Doing this has many benefits:

• The file can be emailed to your client for approval. Since the file contains screen shots and prototypes, it will be clear as to exactly how the feature will work.
• The file can be used by your quality assurance team to create test cases from and to ensure traceability and test coverage for the Requirement.
• The file can be used by your programming staff so that they understand fully how the feature should work.

Requirement Reporting and Dashboards

Once your requirements are entered, you can analyze them with our built-in reports and dashboards.