Rational Requirements Composer

Requirements definition and management solution for collaborative, fast-paced development

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IBM Rational Requirements Composer empowers teams to define, manage, and report on requirements in a lifecycle development project.

Many stakeholders in the development process create and use requirements to drive business goals. Better quality requirements, effective management and a good process lead to a reduction in rework, faster time to market, a reduction in costs, and an overall better business outcome.

Engage a wide range of globally distributed customers and other stakeholders in a requirements driven development process.
Use intuitive online rich documents, storyboards, process diagrams, use cases, and other visual techniques to capture customer needs and drive your business.
Analyze, organize and manage requirements and their changes efficiently using attributes, collections, tags, filters, in dynamic information views or use out-of-the-box templates and custom reports to understand a project’s position (including requirement specification, audit history, traceability report).
Encourage group collaboration across development projects combining team expertise to improve clarity and accuracy in requirements for stakeholders, developers, managers, etc.
Move beyond office documents, spreadsheets, work items, or note cards to express and manage requirements.
Bring agility, customer focus and predictability with light-weight requirements practices.
Exposes requirement and development gaps or change impact using traceability which provides visibility across requirements to implementation and test.
Reuse requirements artifacts across an enterprise or program.
Align requirements, development, change management, and quality management activities through Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM) by relating requirements from Requirements Composer to work items in IBM Rational Team Concert, and tests in IBM Rational Quality Manager.
Where teams are capturing, organizing, and planning requirements in a work item backlog, elaborate these work items with visual and textual notations to accelerate communication with and commitment from the customer or product owner.
Rational Requirements Composer 3.0 delivers a powerful combination of definition, management, traceability, templates, history, review and approval, task management, planning, shared filters and views, customizable dashboard, reporting and shared viewlets with Team Concert and Quality Manager capability using your favorite Web browser.

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