Why do you need proper Requirement management?

Software companies strive to achieve clarity in the requirement-gathering step. The foremost step is a mutually agreed upon problem definition and scope between the project manager and the stakeholder. The cost of rework as a result of poor requirement gathering and management is in the range of 15-50%. Defining limitations, constraints and feasibility from technical and business perspectives are mandatory. If projects are started with scanty or not so clear requirements then the risk factor involved is huge. Standardization of process and methodology for the sake of quality, further stresses the need for proper requirement gathering phase.

Success is a subject matter of meeting the project requirements. Identifying stakeholders, understanding stakeholders, organizing, and tracking the requirements are the major areas of concentration for realizing success.

Impact of Changes
Change is an inevitable aspect, occurs even in the requirement phase. It is necessary to keep track of the history of changes, as change in one area causes undesirable effects on other areas.

A keen perceptive in the requirement phase is an absolute necessary as because any flaw here would lead to a result, which will not convince or reassure your client.

ZSL Spade Work a product evolved by our expert developer's offers your management system to proficiently keep track of the requirements throughout the project. It considerably reduces the bulging costs and unwarranted delays. Costs are reduced, as time is not spent on conquering and implementing unwanted requirements.

Spadework breaks the project requirements into manageable fragments enabling better understanding of the requirements.

Tackling changes
Spade work, intelligently relates requirements together. Changes made in one area of the requirement, will automatically get reflected in other relevant areas. The cause behind the changes is also stored for future purpose.

Determining the changes and its influence on other dependent areas can smoothen project manager’s management decisions.

Overall Management
Spadework automatically segregates requirements into business, logical and technical for meaningful and less chaotic management. All the requirements are maintained in the database along with its dependencies and properties. The project manager acquires a complete vision of all the requirements and its corresponding scope for superior requirement management. It even goes to the level of deriving test cases from the existing set of requirements.

Property set
Spadework assigns properties for individual requirements. A property set is a complete list of all possible name-value pair viz., precedence, status, type etc. Each and every name-value pair offers better insight to the project manager about a particular requirement.

Version Control
There might be instances wherein requirements undergo a massive change leading to various versions with a complete revamp of dependencies. Spadework stores the entire list of different versions of requirements. Provision for reverting the current version to a particular version from the history of versions is also available.

Security
Spadework provides role-based security for its users. Each and every user is linked to a particular role. Each and every role is entitled to a set of screens and menus. This ascertains rigid security even within users. The data are constantly under tight security against unwarranted external users.

Reports
The entire set of details stored in the backend can be condensed and customized according to your needs into concise set of reports.

Spadework restores the integrity of the project irrespective of the project model you follow. Unnecessary hiccups are eliminated in the initial stage itself. High-end technology is used to systematize your requirement-gathering phase for absolute project productivity and customer satisfaction.