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 | 14/09/2017 | requirements, tools
The September 2017 version of our list of requirements tools is available. It contains a total of 91 requirements management (RM) tools. The previous version dated back from November 2016. The new September 2017 list contains many updates that show the requirements...
by Andreas Birk | 11/01/2017 | software engineering
Atlassian Confluence is one of the most widely used Wiki systems among software development teams. Besides other application areas it can be used to support requirements management (RM). This article surveys relevant information resources and gives basic advice on RM...
by Gerald Heller | 01/12/2016 | software engineering
The November 2016 version of our list of requirements tools is available. It contains a total of 101 requirements management tools. The previous version dated back from February 2016. Several vendors have since released new versions of their tools that we have...
by Andreas Birk | 13/09/2016 | software engineering
On September 7, 2016, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE; https://www.hpe.com; NYSE: HPE) and Micro Focus (https://www.microfocus.com; LSE: MCRO.L) announced their intention to spin-off HPE Software and merge it with Micro Focus. The merger is expected to close in Q3...
