Requirements Management is a most basic step in system development. An updated requirements list is your system inventory. It is the sum total of what your application does. Customers (internal & external) sign off on them before development and acceptance tests are based on them for delivery. Designs are based on them and trace to them to guarantee scope coverage. Tests are traced to them to guarantee that all issues are verified. Good requirements tracing takes a lot of the surprises out of change requests. go to www.methoda.com/mshop

Unfortunately, many organizations do not manage their requirements. Their requirements are all over the place, and often do not exist at all. One of the reasons for this situation is that many organizations just don't know how to manage requirements. Their requirements are buried in documents that may combine them with marketing visions or design. They thus miss out on the benefits and pay dearly when requirements problems are discovered during acceptance testing. Another reason is that they cannot decide on a tool. Good Requirements management tools are expensive and often cumbersome to use. So the selection process for the "right" tool can go on forever.

The good news is that with MethodA's Excel based Requirements Management template you can immediately get started with good requirements management based on industry best practices – and for almost no money.

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For many organizations, this is all you will need. If in the future you will want to move to an expensive tool, you will have preserved your requirements for upload. The main thing is don't wait. If you are not managing your requirements, every day is important. Download this tool today. You have everything to gain.