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Requirements management

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Requirements management, requirements definition and requirements engineering practices are the cornerstones of project success.

In a recent industry study, organisations surveyed incurred a cost of as much as 60% on time and budget when they used poor requirements practices. Organisations with poor business analysis capabilities had three times as many project failures as successes.

When requirements are defined and managed properly, project overruns can be reduced by as much as 20% by reducing the number of inaccurate, incomplete, and omitted requirements.

Rational software offers best practices in requirements definition and requirements management, proven to save time and money by helping you:

Featured requirements management products

  • Rational Requirements Composer

    A collaborative requirements definition solution that provides textual and visual techniques to elicit, elaborate, and validate requirements with your stakeholders.

  • Rational RequisitePro

    Requirements management, traceability, and impact analysis capabilities for project teams, primarily suited to organisations creating application software.

  • Rational DOORS

    Requirements management, traceability, and impact analysis capabilities for more formal, rigorous requirements engineering purposes, primarily suited to organisations creating manufactured systems and products.

  • Rational DOORS Analyst

    Extends Rational DOORS with an integrated UML-based visual requirements modeling facility.

  • Rational DOORS Web Access

    Provides access to view and discuss requirements through a Web browser.