Requirements Management: "Requirements" are desired characteristics of a product or service. Product Management, Product Marketing and Engineering teams usually get these "requirements" in the form of feature requests, enhancement requests and product feedback from internal and external stakeholders - as well as their own market and user research. "Requirements Management" refers to the collection of activities undertaken by a team in order to gather, store, track, prioritize and implement requirements.
Challenges for Product Management, Product Marketing, Engineering & Project Management: Personnel in product management, product marketing, engineering and project management get requirements and feature requests from customers and internal stakeholders via email, phone, and in-person. These personnel (i.e. product managers, product marketing managers, engineering leads, project managers, et al) have to capture, track and manage requirements and ensure the requirements are prioritized into upcoming product releases. This is very hard to do with software like spreadsheets, word processors, emails & wikis.
Accompa Requirements Management Software: Designed with product managers, product marketing managers, engineering leads & architects, project managers and related professionals (such as business analysts, requirements analysts, et al) in mind, Accompa solves challenges in gathering requirements, managing requirements and tracking requirements. It is an easy-to-use, web hosted software, and starts at only $25/month/user.
Common Requirements Management Terms: Requirements Tracking, Requirement Gathering, Product Management Software, Requirement Manager, Product Marketing Software, Requirements Prioritization, Requirements Validation, Market Requirements Document (MRD), Product Requirements Document (PRD), Feature Requests Tracking, Customer Needs Management. |
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