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Manage your requirements with RequisitePro

Martin C. Brown (questions@mcslp.com), Programmer
Martin C. Brown, a Studio B author, is a former IT Director with experience in cross-platform integration. A keen developer, he has produced dynamic sites for blue-chip customers, including HP and Oracle and is the Technical Director of Foodware.net. Now a freelance writer and consultant, MC, as he is better known, works closely with Microsoft as an SME, is the LAMP Technologies Editor for LinuxWorld magazine, a core member of the AnswerSquad.com team and has written a number of books on topics as diverse as Microsoft Certification, iMacs and open source programming. Despite his best attempts, he remains a regular and voracious programmer on many platform and numerous environments. MC can be contacted at: questions@mcslp.com, or through the MCslp Web site.

Summary:  Software is based on requirements -- the requirements of your clients, team, marketing department and other entities, all of whom send you requests about the features that they would like incorporated into the system. But how do you track all of this information and use these requirements to help manage your project? In this tutorial you'll see how to turn the requirements you receive into a project within RequisitePro, which enables you to track the requirements information and use this to produce project plans and requirements documents.

Date:  04 Jun 2004
Level:  Introductory
PDF:  A4 and Letter (865 KB | 41 pages)Get Adobe® Reader®

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In this tutorial you saw the basic mechanics of the software requirements process by using a recipe database as the target application. You used the requirements for the recipe database to understand how to begin to model and record the various requirements within RequisitePro. The software allows you to create requirements either directly into the database, or from within a Word document and supports a full range of tracking history facilities in combination with a flexible database structure. It is this flexibility that enables you to record additional information about the various requirements, such as their source, status or projected cost.

You also used the relationship between the original software requirements and developer requirements to identify how to relate and trace requirements through the life of the project. These links and relationships between the various requirements can be used to trace the origin and therefore the importance of each requirement in the final system.

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