Most BAs don't have access to sophisticated requirements management tools. We are keeping our requirements in MS office documents. I am interested in where you are storing all of these documents. Sharepoint? Documentum? How are these repositories working? At the World Congress for Business Analysis conference this week in Orlando I will moderating a discussion on home grown requirements repositories. I am interested in any suggestions that you may have.

Thanks, Barb

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aco on 11/16/2008
Always a difficult choice as other parts of the organisation usually have their own systems that can impose restrictions on you. We choose not to use Word as (our opinion is) time spent in managing styles and look and feel is wasted time. We'd rather write once and then render however it's needed. Currently we store requirements in Remedy (as the rest of the R&D organisation uses tickets to manage their work). We export a report that includes the tickets for that requirements document and then use an inhouse script to generate an html document from that. I would be very interested to hear of any useful applications for writing Volere style requirements however.

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bear1035 on 1/8/2009
I use VSS.

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dvansant on 1/15/2009
My company, Artifact Software (http://www.artifactsoftware.com), offers a free online version of its project and application lifecycle managemet software, Lighthouse. Users can store requirements, comment on requirements, and link requirements to change requests, test cases, defects, and other project artifacts. Because your requirements will be structured in a database, you can easily run traceability reports. Lighthouse is free for 1 project and 5 users. Our primary goal was to develop a single inexpense repository for project data to help those juggling Word docs, spreadsheets, emails, IM's etc. I hope you will find Lighthouse helpful. -Derek

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adam@brightgreen on 3/25/2009
Barb - our tool can probably help you out! We have built a web-based Requirements Management Tool, which we have called Bright Green Projects. We are in a Pilot Phase at the moment, those members of the Pilot Group will not have to pay anything until September. Please sign-up on our site (http://www.brightgreenprojects.com/signup_form) to have a look around. Adam

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