Requirements management – the cornerstone of project success
Requirements management and requirements engineering practices are undisputedly the cornerstones of successful software and systems engineering projects. Our experience has shown that with a proper requirements definition and management solution, organizations can reduce project overruns by as much as 20 percent by limiting the number of inaccurate, incomplete, and omitted requirements. IBM® Rational® software offers best practices in requirements management and definition proven to save time and money by helping you:
- Reduce rework and accelerate time to market by collaborating with your stakeholders
- Increase productivity by controlling and managing changes to requirements
- Minimize cost and risk by measuring the impact of changes as they occur
- Demonstrate compliance by ensuring full traceability of requirements
Real Results
Emerging Health IT achieves fast ROI with IBM Rational requirements management solution.
Green eMotion reduces development time by 30 to 70 percent; and bridges information islands between project participants, enabling more effective collaboration.
An aerospace and defense company processes 650% more requirements per day.
Amsterdam Airport Schiphol helps passenger volume takes off with a smarter baggage handling.
Raytheon (YouTube, 00:02:53) meets their customer’s needs using a scalable requirements management solution; managing over a hundred thousand of requirements, ten thousand of test cases and maintaining traceability.
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Helps reduce rework and accelerate time to market by collaborating with your stakeholders. Increase productivity by controlling and managing changes to requirements. Minimize cost and risk by measuring the impact of changes as they occur, and Demonstrating compliance by ensuring full traceability of requirements.
Featured requirements management products
Rational DOORS
Requirements management, traceability, and impact analysis capabilities for more formal, rigorous requirements engineering purposes, primarily suited to organizations creating manufactured systems and products.
Rational DOORS Next Generation
The next generation requirements management tool for embedded and complex systems built on jazz platform.
Rational Requirements Composer
Requirements management and definition using a collaborative approach, enabling stakeholders and IT teams anywhere in the world to provide input, get clarity, achieve consensus faster, and adapt to changes quickly.
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