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Services: Requirements Documentation and Management

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Documentation

Capiro consultants can create and review functional and non-functional requirements specifications, plus any supporting models. Documentation can be on Word, Excel, or a tailor-made requirements tool. Documentation would normally be done in conjunction with requirements gathering.

Define goal level requirements.
Create use case and user task specifications plus scenarios and storyboards as required.
Create requirements models: Process, Data, States and events.
Create functional requirements specifications.
Document testable quality (non functional) requirements specifications.
Review current practices for documentation.
Propose and implement better practices for requirements documentation.

Management

Capiro consultants can advise on better practices for requirements management as well as helping to staff the requirements management function on an interim basis.

Review current practices for requirements management.
Propose and implement better practices for requirements management.
Provide interim requirements managers.
Introduce and use a system of traceability.
Introduce and use effective priorities systems.
Introduce and use effective version control and release baselining.
Introduce and use a system of triage.

Tool Selection and Implementation

Capiro consultants can help you select and implement tools. If you have already purchased a tool but feel that you are not getting your money's worth out of it, we may be able to help; perhaps it is simply a matter of additional training or perhaps you have not selected the optimal tool for the intended job. Contact us for any or all of the following:

Tool selection including the creation of a business case and management of the suppliers.
Installation and training for IBM DOORS.
Installation and training for MetaStorm's Pro-Vision.
Installation and training for Bright Green Projects' (Agile) requirements tool.