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Learn How You Can
FIGHT RIGHT BACK
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How Recession Challenges You |
The news of the recession is all around us -- on TV, in financial media, in the newspapers, and pretty much everywhere we look. Many economists even think that this could be a long and deep recession.
In response to this news, many companies have started some form of "belt tightening". Your company too might have started, at least in some small way. This throws a lot of challenges at you and your team...
Some companies have instituted a "No new hires, except for replacements" policy. This means you and your team have to do ever-increasing amounts of work with the same number of personnel. Still other companies have instituted a "No new hires, period" policy. This means you may have to get things done with fewer personnel...
Either way, you and your team are being asked to do more in the same number of hours, often with fewer resources. This is a very tough challenge for you. But there is a silver-lining in these dark clouds. |
Your Opportunities During Recession |
 "Wherever there is a challenge, there lurks opportunity" said Earl Nightingale, the late founder of Nightingale-Conant Corp. While having to do more work in the same number of hours is certainly a tough challenge, it also presents an opportunity...
The opportunity to make yourself and your team more efficient and more productive. The opportunity to save time spent on managing requirements using ill-suited tools. The opportunity to eliminate waste in your requirements process.
When you take advantage of these opportunities to build a better requirements management process, you're able to create more successful products that meet customer needs better and pull ahead of your competitors even as they hunker down by merely cutting costs to fight the recession... |
Why Excel™ & Word™ Are Wrong Tools
You Can't Afford During Recession
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| When it comes to tracking and managing your requirements - tools such as Excel and Word have some benefits. They are readily available and you already know how to use them. But they are often the wrong tools for the task at hand - and even worse during the recession. Why? Using such "general purpose" tools to track and manage your requirements can lead to: |
- Incomplete Requirements
- As these are general-purpose tools, it is very hard to gather requirements in a structured fashion. This often leads to incomplete requirements - one of the biggest reasons for project failures in a large study by the Standish Group.
- Incorrect Requirements
- Requirements documents created using Excel and Word usually are stored on the author's computer, and are not accessible by others in real-time.
- This makes it harder to share, discuss, validate, and track changes - frequently leading to incorrect requirements.
- Lost Requirements
- Most importantly - it is very easy for requirements to drop through the cracks when using Excel/Word to manage them. Even critical requirements can be lost when the author forgets, is reassigned, or leaves your organization.
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 Incomplete, incorrect and lost requirements lead to PROJECT FAILURES, LOST DEALS and UNHAPPY CUSTOMERS WHO DEFECT - without you even knowing it is caused by the wrong tools. This is bad enough, but these tools are often even worse...
When you use tools like Excel and Word to manage your requirements, they TAKE VALUABLE TIME AWAY from your team's higher-value activities, CAUSE UNNECESSARY STRESS and FRUSTRATE YOU...
You can't afford any of these insidious wastes during normal times, let alone a recession like the one we're in now.
This is why Engineering & Sales teams at most companies do NOT use Excel, Word & wikis to track their Issues and Opportunities. They use tools built for that particular task -- i.e. Bug trackers and CRM software, respectively. You too can prevent these losses and fight back at the recession by choosing the right tool to manage your requirements. Here is how... |
How You Can Get The Right Tool
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Fight Back At Recession |
| Gartner, the leading independent market research organization, says the following: |
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"Requirements management can be simplified if initial requirements definitions are captured in a database-based tool to enable collaborative review... traceability and versioning/change control" |
Matt Light, Research Director, Gartner |
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| Accompa is the leading web-based requirements management tool that enables you to defeat the shortcomings of Excel & Word, and track & manage your requirements successfully using a central, customizable database. |
Accompa is an easy-to-use and proven software used by more than 100 companies
of all sizes to manage their requirements. It is customizable to fit your organization's needs. It is also very affordable - it costs just $25/month/user. |
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P.S. Comparable enterprise-quality requirements software can cost 2-6 times the price of Accompa, depending on the number of licenses you need. However, Accompa costs just $25/month/user, the same as 2-3 cups of Starbucks per week per user. Why is Accompa so inexpensive? |
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Features You Need, And Nothing More |
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| Here's just a sampling of the many powerful features in Accompa: |
1. Store & Manage Structured Requirements Centrally |
 Store structured requirements in a central, web based database - instead of in unstructured documents and emails on the PCs of individuals like product managers or engineers.- Create, track & manage requirements and features for your products/projects right from your web browser (Internet Explorer or Firefox) - without installing or maintaining any software.
- Access securely from anywhere (work, home or road) with any computer connected to the Internet.
- Enable multiple users to simultaneously access up-to-date requirements.
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2. Customize to Fit Your Needs |
 Customize Accompa right from your web browser, to fit your organization's unique needs in product management or related teams.- Create unlimited custom fields to capture and track all aspects of your requirements.
- Build custom reports to extract data of interest with ease.
- Create custom views to manage requirements for multiple products/projects.
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3. Gather Requirements Using Custom Web Forms |
 Gather feature requests over the web using custom web forms called "SmartForms".- Create unlimited customized web forms for use in gathering requirements from customers as well as internal stakeholders such as Sales and Support teams.
- SmartForm submissions are automatically converted into requirements using custom criteria to save you valuable time.
- Review SmartForm submissions easily and process them for further action.
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4. Track Changes & Dependencies Automatically |
 Keep track of change history of each requirement including: a) date of each change, b) who made the change, and c) what was the change.- Easily view change history for each field of a given requirement - such as "Description" or "Needed by Date" fields.
- Track dependencies between requirements using intuitive "Relationship Trees".
- Perform quick impact analysis when removing or deferring a requirement from a project.
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5. Share Requirements & Collaborate in Real-Time |
 Share requirements across different departments of your organization in real-time - securely over the web.- Collaborate via easy-to-use tools such as integrated discussion boards.
- Identify the most popular requirement themes using our powerful Social Tags.
- Get automatic email alerts on requirements, discussions, products and projects of interest to you.
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6. Prioritize Requirements Using Systematic Methodology |
 Prioritize requirements using repeatable, systematic methodology based on ROI (Return on Investment) metrics.- Create custom formula to calculate ROI of your requirements, to fit criteria important to your organization.
- Say goodbye to prioritization based on ad-hoc methods and judgment calls.
- Focus your resources on highest value requirements - instead of just requirements that seem interesting.
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7. Save Time & Eliminate Hassles Using Powerful Capabilities |
 Find requirements of interest to you instantly using Accompa's powerful, customizable "Search".- Group and manage requirements and features in a hierarchical structure using interactive trees.
- Import your current requirements from Excel or CSV files into Accompa with just a few clicks.
- Export requirements with a single-click to Microsoft Word, Excel or HTML.
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8. Generate MRD & PRD Using Intuitive Wizards |
 Save time and reduce hassles involved in creating requirements documents such MRDs (market requirements document) and PRDs (product requirements document).- Create preliminary versions of MRDs and PRDs right from Accompa using intuitive wizards.
- Export with a single-click to Microsoft Word, HTML, or PDF to work on them further.
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That is not all - Accompa is loaded with many other useful features to help you fight back at recession via better requirements management...
Imagine you and your team using Accompa to manage your requirements. You fight back at the recession by avoiding all the losses & unnecessary stress caused by ill-suited tools like Excel & Word - and work far more efficiently and more successfully. Click the button below to try it risk-free right now... |
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