Kovair Requirements Management
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The document discusses Kovair's requirements management capabilities. Kovair allows organizations to gather requirements through direct entry, email, integration with other tools. It supports requirements elicitation, analysis, specification, validation and integration with other phases of the development lifecycle. Key features include classification, prioritization, collaborative review, diagramming, versioning, filtering and reuse of requirements.
Kovair Requirements Management
- 2. • Fewer requirements defects • Reduce development rework • Fewer unnecessary features • Lower enhancement costs • Faster development • Fewer miscommunications • Reduced scope creep • Reduced project Chaos • More accurate system testing estimates • High customer and team members satisfaction Why Requirements Need to be Managed?
- 4. • Complete • Each requirement must fully describe the functionality to be delivered • Correct • Each requirement must accurately describe the functionality to be built • Feasible • It must be possible to implement the functionality • Necessary • Each requirement should document a capability that is really needed • Prioritized • Assign priorities to respond to budget cuts, time, … • Unambiguous • All readers must arrive to the same understanding • Verifiable • Can be tested, inspected, reviewed, … Characteristics of Good Requirement
- 5. Requirement Elicitation Using Kovair • Provides multiple mechanisms to gather Requirements • Direct Entry • Email • Via Integration with other tools • From corporate website • Import from Word or Excel • Integration with Outlook • Allows classification and prioritization of requirements • Provides excel like batch update facility • Allows stakeholders to do collaborative review over a web based platform • Provides In-built diagramming capability allowing users to draw • UML • Mockups • BPMN diagrams and many more • Support for versioning – Creation, Viewing Differences, Merging
- 6. Requirement Elicitation Using Kovair • Helps to understand the "Who, What, When and Why" of any changes • Allows viewing of requirements using different simple and advanced level filters • Allows tagging of requirements based on different attribute value • Allows enterprise wide reuse of artifacts to reduce errors and re-work • Allows to organize requirements in folders within the application • Supports organization of requirements in groups based on attribute values • Provides option to subscribe for items and get notified whenever any modification happens
- 7. Requirements Analysis Using Kovair • Allows maintaining different types of Requirements as per business need • Allows to define the relationships between artifacts along with their cardinality • Provides pictorial representation of the traceability between artifacts • Provides facility for users to capture the feedback of all types of analysis • Extensive support for baseline • Create baseline • Compare baseline • Support for baselining related items
- 8. Requirements Specification Using Kovair • Provides the capability of creating artifacts and their attributes in a codeless manner • Allows to capture all information related to software specification • Enables users to generate custom templates based PRD/MRD/SRS documents • Generates formatted output to Word, Excel & PDF
- 9. Requirements Validation Using Kovair • Has Task Based Process Engine to support any workflow or methodology • Create multiple processes for each application • Drag and drop Visual designer • Support for Cross tool processes • Allows to conduct collaborative review over a web based interface • Provides complete visibility to the progress in a real-time manner through reports and dashboards with drilldown capability • Supports ad-hoc communication through comments and attachments • Provides Advanced level access control mechanism at enterprise as well as record level
- 10. Requirements Validation Using Kovair • Provides built-in Test & Defect Management capabilities • Allows to create and maintain Test Cases for each and every phase of application lifecycle • Supports import of Test Cases from excel files • Supports execution of test automation scripts written in Selenium and QTP • Allows to log defects against any identified problem
- 11. Integrated With Other Phases • Ability to integrate with tools of other phases of the lifecycle through Kovair Omnibus • Provides cross tool data based traceability, reports & dashboards with drill down capability • Already connected with ~80 commercial tools from different domains like ALM, ITSM & PLM • Supports implementation of central governance across tools through task based workflow
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