Your office is having its annual party, and you’re in charge of the food.
You place the order for Italian food and inform your colleagues about it when Jenny from Accounts reminds you that the boss’s wife will also be there for the party and prefers continental food.
Not wanting to spoil the party, you pick the phone again and add two continental dishes to the order when you receive another message reminding you about the sweet lime soda—one you completely forgot. Ugh!
Doesn’t reading this feel chaotic enough? Now imagine this mess taking place at work. Luckily, requirements management can handle all of this chaos, allowing you to work systematically.
What is Requirements Management?
Requirements management refers to the process of gathering, understanding, refining, prioritizing, and planning every aspect of a project to ensure its success.
It’s an ongoing process where team members monitor a product’s whole lifecycle to ensure the end product meets the needs of customers and stakeholders. You have to document every specification, assumption, exception, and decision.
No doubt, the process takes a lot of time and effort. But in the end, all the effort you put in can simplify the whole shebang considerably.
But why do you need requirements management?
It can act as a point of reference while documenting the whole project from the starting point to the end. Even the client can use it as a blueprint to unders… Read More