Integrated requirements management is about more than defining and managing requirements: it's about making them part of the full development life cycle, tying real business needs to software solutions and linking them directly to the business; so that the software you deliver meets the real needs of business users
IBM Rational offers integrated requirements management software that helps your create requirements that are the cornerstone of successful software delivery. IBM Rational Requirements Composer (US) is a collaborative requirements definition solution that provides textual and visual techniques to elicit and elaborate requirements that align business and information technology organisations through better requirements.
Once business objectives and requirements are defined, execution can be managed in IBM Rational RequisitePro (US), which is a requirements management solution that provides traceability and helps organisations understand the impact of change as it occurs so they can better manage risk and its effect on the project.
Requirements management and requirements definition software trials
Rational RequisitePro for Requirements Management
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Rational Requirements Composer for Requirements Definition
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| Functional area | Value of the integration with Rational RequisitePro |
|---|---|
| Model-driven development (US) with IBM Rational Software Architect | Draw use case diagrams and link them with use case documents; link requirements to design elements and code. |
| UML™ 2.0-based visual modeling and design (US) with IBM Rational Software Modeler | Draw use case diagrams and link them with use case documents; link requirements to design elements. |
| Comprehensive software change management (US) with IBM Rational ClearQuest | Trace enhancement requests, defects, or activities to requirements. |
| Test management (US) with IBM Rational Quality Manager | A collaborative and customisable solution for test planning, workflow control, tracking and metrics reporting capable of quantifying how project decisions and deliverables impact and align with business objectives. |
| Business process modeling (US) with IBM WebSphere Business Modeler | Define business process requirements. Trace business model elements to business and system requirements. |
| SOA-based integration solutions development (US) with IBM WebSphere Integration Developer | Link requirements to elements within SOA application development and other integration projects. |
| Integrated development environment (US) for Java/J2EE™, Portal, Web, Web services, and SOA applications with IBM Rational Application Developer | View requirements from within the IDE; trace requirements to code. |
| Complex systems development and delivery (US) with IBM Rational Systems Developer | Manage and trace requirements for complex systems. |
| Enterprise data modeling and integration design (US) with IBM Rational Data Architect | Collect data requirements; trace database designs to requirements. |
| Enterprise project and portfolio management (US) with IBM Rational Portfolio Manager | Associate work, financials, and status to requirements |
| Comprehensive process framework (US) for proven best practices for software and systems delivery with the IBM Rational Unified Process | Get in-context process help from within IBM Rational RequisitePro |
| Requirements definition via visualisation of process flows (Worldwide) with Raven | Define and validate business use cases and automatically display as activity diagrams; link with requirements. |
| Requirements definition via prototyping and simulation (Worldwide) with iRise | Define requirements by prototyping and manage and trace to them in Rational RequisitePro. |
