Level: Introductory Catherine Connor, Requirements Management Evangelist, IBM
19 Nov 2003 This paper describes how to benefit from the integration of Rational ClearQuest and Rational RequisitePro to effectively collect stakeholder requests, then associate them to new or existing requirements. This minimizes requirement changes by cleanly separating change requests from requirements.
Managing change is one of the biggest challenges of effective software development. Any step in controlling change can help you deliver faster and better.
Rational ClearQuest allows you to uniformly collect the change and evaluate it before it impacts your project. ClearQuest acts as a clearinghouse so that change does not prematurely affects your project. As change is accepted and subsequently drives new system functionality, it is important to link system functionality to the original change to maintain the source of requirements put on the system.
Having a clean integration between a change request management tool (Rational ClearQuest) and a requirement management tool (Rational RequisitePro) allows you to focus on what you are committed to delivering, but still allows you to consider stakeholder feedback to ensure that by the time you deliver your system, it still provides value to them.
This paper describes how the analyst can benefit from the integration between Rational ClearQuest and Rational RequisitePro to effectively collect stakeholder requests, then associate these requests to new or existing requirements.
This integration minimizes the amount of requirement change by cleanly separating change requests from requirements.
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About the author  | | | Catherine Connor is a Requirements Management Evangelist for IBM Rational software products. Her role consists of helping Rational teams and their customers to be successful in deploying IBM Rational requirements management solutions, RequisitePro and Rational Suite AnalystStudio. Catherine has more than 10 years of experience in programming and supporting software customers in implementing software solutions. |
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