Microsoft Office: The Wrong Tool for Software Requirements

Although great as an office productivity suite, MS Office is sorely inadequate for working with requirements. For the business analyst, too much time and energy is spent on creating and maintaining a document rather than focusing on the requirements. For the stakeholder, the document is hard to understand, making it difficult to determine if the business needs are being met.

In this whitepaper, you will learn:

  • The advantages of using a purpose-built tool for authoring and validating requirements
  • The weakness of 'one-size-fits-all' requirements documents and how to tailor documents for individual stakeholders
  • Why traceability breaks down with MS Office and how that hurts your projects
  • The advantages of working with a real requirements repository instead of relying on the Word document

 

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