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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