What's your favorite Requirements Management Tool?

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What's your favorite Requirements Management Tool?













Adam Feldman

Managing Director at Bright Green Projects






I am a little bit biased, but mine is Bright Green Projects!! We have just launched a free plan too!

http://brightgreenprojects.com

Adam

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Mark Ridgwell

Business Strategy Planning & Delivery - Knowledge Genes






Hi Caroline,


Biased here also - we use Knowledge Genes to map and control WHAT needs to be achieved, HOW and WHY. Knowledge Genes is diffenent because it codifies knowledge, then intelligently helps you by finding relevant document from the web or your coporate web if you like and alerts too.

http://www.knowgenes.com/Welcome.aspx

HTH - Mark

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Daniel Harman

Business Analyst Professional

Possibly a bit left-field, but as a web BA my most valuable tool by far for requirements - speficially wireframes and process mapping, is Omnigraffle. Awesome diagramming tool - Mac only I am afraid though.

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Kam-Hung Soh

Member at IIBA

Telelogic (now part of IBM) DOORS. It gives each requirement a unique ID for tracking and includes a good linking feature which helps impact analysis.

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Michael Walters

Senior Business Analyst - UPS

I have used Borland Caliber and IRISE to varying degrees/successes. Borland is better for tracing requirements. IRISE is excellent for prototyping - especially for Web Applications. And then there is always MS Word - always come back to that one.. Easy to work with and simple use - not so good for tracing requirements though.

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Daniel Harman

Business Analyst Professional

Oh I forgot to mentioned Confluence ( http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/ ). The last 3 web start-up companies I have worked with, were all Agile and all used Confluence. An awesome wiki if that is your thing :)

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Andrew Elder

Business Analyst, Tester & Trainer

Michael, if this thread was "Worst Requirement Management Tools Ever", I'd include the examples you gave. Those two are only slightly better than writing requirements on post-it notes and sticking them to your monitor around the boggle-eyed toys stuck there previously (don't laugh ...)

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Louise White

Information Technology and Services Professional

I like Optimal Trace. It's better than any Reqs Mgt tool because it also documents the requirements. By documenting the requirements themselves and the dependencies and relationships, the tool manages those requirements automatically and shows you whenever relationships are missed, visually as well as in a report. As extra bonuses, it produces the models as you write the cases and the steps, writes the test scripts and when you're all done you can produce the requirements or specification document in MS Word format. Document, analyse, model, test and manage, all in a single tool! One stop shopping!

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Lynne Forrester

Senior Business Analyst at Denver RTD

The tool I like best for analysis, especially process, is Agilian from Visual Paradigm. We use just the Standard version and it is really powerful. It's also inexpensive. Their support for business rules is limited but they are working on that.

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Inderdeep Singh

Business Analyst IT

A well structured word template...coupled with MS Visio for wireframes, data modeling and enterprise architect give a deadly combination for a business analyst professional. I also like Biz agi process modeler its fast and user friendly

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