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SituationDevelopment requirements often change throughout a project lifecycle, because the design can be refined and business users can request changes to features or functionality. In a project where many people are responsible for collecting and interpreting requirements, a shared view of information can be important. However, the overhead of a large-scale requirements management system can be daunting, and teams sometimes resort to exchanging standalone requirements documents. This can lead to inefficiencies and the inability to make timely changes.
Today, companies can face the following challenges: | • | Compressed application development cycles. Competitive or budget pressures can shorten development cycles. | | • | Highly-distributed development teams. Offshore development efforts can be complex to manage. | | • | Poorer collaboration and communication between development teams. Lack of effective collaboration tools can prolong development cycles. | | • | Difficulty delivering business value to corporate stakeholders and shareholders. Challenges can reduce the scope or functionality, which can frustrate business users. |
Overall, companies can benefit from streamlining the requirements authoring process through a requirements authoring solution built on the Microsoft Office System.
SolutionThe goal of a requirements authoring solution is to offer a cost-effective approach to managing complex, global, and time-constrained application requirements authoring using the Microsoft Office System. Enhance Communication and Collaboration | • | Enhance collaboration for global development teams with tools that can enable more productive review, editing, and retrieval of requirements documents. | | • | Increase the visibility of requirements. | | • | Improve the connection between individual requirements status and the overall project. |
Streamline Global Requirements Gathering | • | Enable faster retrieval of requirements documents through a centralized document repository. | | • | Improve requirements quality by linking dependencies and relationships. | | • | Broaden requirements authoring capabilities through integration with legacy systems. |
Improve Requirements Authoring | • | Reduce training costs by utilizing an authoring environment that is more familiar to users. | | • | Improve requirements effectiveness by keeping employees focused on higher-value tasks once requirements are complete. | | • | Improve requirements authoring capabilities without sacrificing ease-of-use. |
More Cost-Effective Development Process | • | Gain more from existing IT investments. | | • | Help reduce costs by integrating quickly and easily with existing IT infrastructure. | | • | More quickly identify impacts without affecting existing productivity. |
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BenefitsA Microsoft Office System solution can help companies more effectively and efficiently attain the following benefits: | | • | More rapidly and precisely author project requirements | | • | More effectively manage the global requirement-gathering process | | • | Enhance communications and collaboration in the development process | | • | Reduce costs by leveraging existing and familiar tools |
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