Requirements Management.

The Requirements Management Challenge.
Product managers in high-tech companies are overwhelmed by features, ideas and product requirements from inside and outside their company. In enterprises where product managers are considered business-critical, these managers face tremendous pressure to develop increasingly more complex products out faster and better targeted to market needs. However, product managers often lack the Requirements Management tools and skill sets to work faster and better. Many product managers create their own requirements management software database or spreadsheet to keep track of the requests. Some use a paper system – others use email, calendars, instant messaging, client extranets, and excel spreadsheets. Information-sharing and collaboration is difficult, miscommunication involving requirements management tasks are common.

The Requirements Management Solution.
Featureplan - A single Requirements Management tool that captures market feedback and tracks it through the entire requirements management process.

Featureplan Requirements Management Delivers:

• A repeatable process for product planning, based on the Pragmatic Marketing Framework

• Collaboration between product managers and other departments

• Streamlined collection and usability of market intelligence

• Simplified tracking and management of market requirements

• Facilitated data exchange

• From collaboration software to an online release product planning tool, Featureplan requirements management software solutions let you manage all kinds of projects within your organization.

Use Feature Plan requirements management software applications to gather, input, organize, prioritize, share and report on of volumes of requirements management data. All aspects of market intelligence are tracked through the entire requirements management process.

Featureplan Requirements Management helps resolve these common requirements management challenges:

• Ability to generate last minute requirements management summary reports for management team.

• Consolidate all relevant requirements management software data into a central repository.

• Defining an intuitive requirements management process for identifying product requirements.

• Ensuring products are on time and meet product marketing needs.

• Ability to validate product marketing direction before resource and budget commitment.

• Ability to sift through requirements management software information to get to the ‘gold’.

• Ability to produce factual requirements management software information to support product marketing direction.

• Keep customers aware of the status of their enhancement requests as it progresses towards a product release.

• Ability to keep track of and analyze competitor’s products.

Requirements Management program allows work in a collaborative environment. Featureplan requirements management software is based on a client/server model providing product managers and other collaborators within your organization with a repeatable requirements management process. All critical product marketing information is compiled by the Feature Plan Requirements Management program, from the gathering of market inputs, to the building of market driven requirements for a given product release, and all requirements management data can be kept in a centralized Requirements Management location and accessed by product managers and collaborators alike. Featureplan Requirements Management makes requirements management a joint effort.

Requirements Management program supports a repeatable product marketing process. Based on industry best practices, Featureplan requirements management software provides product managers with a repeatable product marketing process that makes it possible to streamline duplicate efforts and reduce paperwork. With the use of Requirements Management software templates, Featureplan provides everyone with a similar requirements management data structure, making critical product marketing and product planning data reusable across the enterprise.

Communicate Information.
Keeping everyone up-to-date with the latest product marketing and requirements management information is often a daunting task. Featureplan requirements management facilitates the communication of product release information both within your organization and with your customers. As new requirements management records are entered into the program, existing requirements management records are modified, or specifications and estimates for market requirements are requested from development, notification of these activities is listed in the Featureplan requirements management software ‘inbox.’ The notes section of a requirements management record allows for reminders to be left to oneself or can be used as a means of communicating with other users with appropriate permission sets, while the product marketing and product planning history logs all of the activities performed on the record.

Incorporate existing Requirements Management Data
Due to the historical lack of a requirements management software tool to help product managers manage their product marketing data, many have resorted to storing requirements management information in spreadsheets, among other requirements management software programs that were designed for different purposes. As long as this information can be exported as a CSV file, it can be imported into the Featureplan Requirements Management application. The fields can then be mapped within Featureplan, the mappings can be saved as can the external ID for the requirements management record.

Extract the requirements management Facts.
One of the greatest values featureplan requirements management software program provides outside of a repeatable process is the ability to get information out quickly. Reporting on product information stored across different applications and formats becomes a very time consuming manual process, which needs to be repeated each time a requirements management report is required. With the extensive reporting capabilities of the Featureplan requirements management e tool, all of the product marketing data stored within the Featureplan requirements management application becomes instantly available to you in an exportable format, reducing the time to produce a requirements management summary report, including the markets requirements document MRD, to minutes.

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