REQUIREMENTS MANAGEMENT TOOLS

Below is a list of requirements management software.

Develop requirements from your project or enterprise needs and thoroughly investigate candidate software.

Performance demonstrations are critical: additional software packages may be required to achieve full traceability to other work products. Tests and design are part of the software product and should be maintained along with the code and documentation.

Some RM tools cover the entire development environment, and they may dictate how you approach system development. The features and capabilities of any tool you are considering should be tested to ensure it works with your development approach.

Allow time for the learning curve, which can take up to a month. Several requirements management tools below are available as free evaluation downloads.

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Requirements Management Software
Accompa Accept 360
Active!Focus AnalystPro
Caliber-RM Clariys
CORE Cradle
DOORS & DOORSrequireIT Enterprise Architect
GatherSpace GMARC
IRqA Jama Contour
Leap SE Lighthouse RM
Mac A&D and Win A&D MKS Requirements
objectiF Open Source RM
Optimal Trace PACE
PixRef Pro Polarion Reqs
Projectricity Rally
RaQuest Reconcile
Reqtify Requirement Tracing System
Requisite Pro RMTrak
RTM Workshop SoftREQ
Teamcenter TestTrackRM
TopTeam Analyst Tracer (free)
TRUEreq (free) XTie-Requirements Tracer

Walk the RM trail to learn more about requirements management and traceability.

The International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) publishes a comparison of features of many requirements management tools, which INCOSE updates periodically. The site also has a good discussion of the minimum capabilities of RM tools, and you can list your RM tool on the INCOSE site.

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Page updated 1/9/2010
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