by Andreas Birk | 27/03/2020 | software engineering
The system perspective of a product requirements specification defines the solution design of a new product or product release. As a starting point it takes a previously described product perspective and defines all important detailed aspects of solution design and...
by Andreas Birk | 06/03/2020 | software engineering
The list of requirements management tools on MakingOfSoftware.com has received a new update: The March 2020 version includes 69 tools, with a selected subset of 13 tools that we find particularly noteworthy. The list gives an up-to-date overview of the requirements...
by Andreas Birk | 26/02/2020 | software engineering
A product requirements specification establishes a bridge between product management and development. It defines a product in terms of stakeholder requirements, containing all those requirements that sensibly should be described explicitly and be available...
by Andreas Birk | 20/02/2020 | software engineering
Attention to requirements specification increased during the 1980s and 1990s in order to master the growing complexity of software and systems development. However, starting in the second half of the 1990s, the movement of agile development widely challenged the use...
by Andreas Birk | 08/03/2019 | tools
The new March 2019 version of our list of requirements tools is available. It replaces the previous version from September 2017. The new list contains a total of 78 requirements management (RM) tools. We observe that the trend of the previous years has continued: The...