Rational RequisitePro

Avoid rework and duplication

• Supports Microsoft Word for requirement authoring and communication.
• Complements document-based entry with a commercial database to add organization, tracking and management capabilities.
• Offers Microsoft Word integration as an option to support teams that prefer a database approach.

Manage complexity with detailed traceability

• Establishes and tracks relationships between requirements to verify that high-level requirements are represented in the detailed software requirement specs.
• Enables you to query these relationships for coverage analysis. It helps ensure completeness and enables you to avoid wasting time building part of the system that is not needed.
• Provides detailed reporting for standards compliance. You can create, view and export filterable traceability matrices and attribute reports for internal and external auditing needs.

Improve collaboration

• Helps ensure distributed teams have read and write access to requirements from wherever they are located.
• Allows anyone with web access—working on any platform—to quickly view, author and manage requirements without having Rational RequisitePro loaded on their machine.
• Enables project administration to be completed via the web.

Capture and analyze requirements

• Allows you to easily set up requirement, attribute and document types.
• Defines queries and filters to quickly find information of interest.
• Is adaptable to your process. Team members can easily create views to display the information they need.
• Includes automatic email notification to stakeholders when requirements change.

Increase productivity

• Creates an XML-based baseline of project requirements. You can use it to jumpstart new projects or compare with other project baselines, exposing requirement changes and omissions at multiple levels of detail.
• Supports parallel development in which more than one set of requirements must coexist.
• Determines when and where changes occur to reduce team confusion and clarify the effect of project decisions over time.

Align business goals and objectives with project deliverables

• Makes requirements information uniformly accessible and modifiable through products in the IBM software delivery platform.
• Synchronizes the entire team and provides for full traceability through the lifecycle by integrating with these products.