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Record, Track, & Manage Requirements

A key component of a software development project is the requirements phase. In spite of the project failures due to poor requirements this phase is often given short shrift. Here are a few reasons:
1. The amount and complexity of the information that must be gathered is difficult to collect and manage.
  Practicum provides a template in which requirements can be gathered and tracked easily.

2. There is a lack of visibility of the work being accomplished during this phase. Its value is diminished and support is removed.
  Reports that can be printed or viewed as pdf files make for easy distribution and visibility.
3. The lack of integration of the requirements process with the rest of the project.
  Practicum is not only a Requirements Management Tool, it is also a Design Tool engineered to integrate the various components of an effective development process.
 
Flow Requirements into Your Design
  A requirements management program is incomplete unless you can flow those requirements easily and effeciently into a design. Practicum does just that. The integration between customer requirements and system design is complete. Use cases, actors, global requirements are easily linked or associated with objects, screens, and reports to make your life easier and more productive.
 
Generate Actionable Design Documents     
  Not only does Practicum allow you to track and manage your requirements. It also allows you to generate design documents that a software developer can used as a template for development. If the requirements in the report are not complete, the developer can effectively request further clarification with the document as the foundation for discussion and further understanding.
 
Manage your Team more Efficiently
  By managing the requirements, the design, and the disemination of data to your team you will streamline your project communications and improve your overall efficiency.
 
Eliminate Unbillable Hours
  The tracking of requirements in many projects are so mediocre that when the development team end up staying a week or month longer than expected, causing great heartburn with the client and many times a hole in the contracters wallet. The overages in time are often unbillable since the requirements have been so poorly documented that all accountability is based on verbal commitments that are at the culmination of the project hotly debated between the customer and the development team. With Practicum, the requirements are never in doubt and always visible to the entire project team.
 
Increase Customer Trust
  With the effective collection, tracking, and distribution of requirements you will show your customer that you are an effective manager of the software development process. Become a expert with Practicum and show yourself competant and worthy of your customers trust.
 
Improve Communication with Customer
  The tracking of requirements in many projects are so mediocre that when the development team end up staying a week or month longer than expected, causing great heartburn with the client and many times a hole in the contracters wallet. The overages in time are often unbillable since the requirements have been so poorly documented that all accountability is based on verbal commitments that are at the culmination of the project hotly debated between the customer and the development team. With Practicum, the requirements are never in doubt and always visible to the entire project team.