Rational Requirements Composer

A better way to define, collaborate, and manage requirements

Features and capabilities:

• Capture requirements
• Visually define
• Traceability
• Collaboration and review
• Reports
• Audit history

Capture requirements
Quickly define and organize requirements with convenient tools: UI mock-up, story boards, rich-text editors, and predefined templates

Visually define
Define requirements visually to quickly convey your project needs: Use cases, diagrams, and customized project content.

Traceability
Connect project requirements, scenarios, test artifacts, and development work items through traceability to identify gaps and change impact

Collaboration and review
Engage the experts from your team to collaborate and improve the quality of your project requirements

Reports
Generate documents, spreadsheets, or PDF reports that show project progress, traceability coverage, and overall status.

Audit history
Quickly identify what changes were made and who made them throughout the project's progress

Better requirements for better business outcome

High quality business requirements and good management practices in the development process (waterfall, iterative or agile) leads to the best outcomes. Engaging stakeholders - early and often - in defining and validating requirements improves the likelihood that projects will deliver what customers need. Using well defined requirements in an organized managed process allows business analysts, developers, and other team members to analyze the information to help drive key business decisions. Traceability across requirements can expose gaps and impact from change. Analysis features then give team members the power to discover key status, release, and value information during development based on good quality requirements.

• Requirements are expressed in many different forms visually and textually and they can come from many sources and tools: spreadsheets, presentations, whiteboard snapshots, etc. Requirements Composer will bring these "information islands" together and connect them with traceability to expose them to the broader development team for collaboration and analysis.

• Requirements Composer helps project teams define what the business needs to accomplish, structure their ideas as text, stories, use cases, process diagrams, work items and tests.

• Analysts and others who author documents have all of these tools and features available, with similar user interfaces, in one location, using a common repository.

• Impact and requirement gaps in project information can be viewed and exposed using built in traceability viewers to show how changed requirement will affect the down/up stream for development.

• Project team members will be able use standard reporting views that include attributes, filters, sorts, traceability and other critical information for development decisions.

Using the Stakeholder Collaboration Strategy with Rational Requirements Composer:
Part 1. The Audience
Part 2. Organizing the project and repository space
Part 3. Linking strategy
Part 4. Collaboration approach