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Kovair’s Requirements Management solution provides a rich and configurable, global
platform for capturing a set of requirements, collaborating on their development
and tracing implementation back to specs. Its Requirements Management tool
ensures that all developers are working from the same playbook, no matter
where they are located, and that there are no costly last minute surprises - whether
the project was developed in the office next door, or by an offshore partner 10,000
miles and 10 time zones away. The result is a top-quality application that matches
what the user asked for and complies with all internal and external requirements.
Scroll down to see the detail of the industry leading Requirements Management solution
offered by Kovair.
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Kovair Requirements Management is an anywhere-anytime requirements gathering, management
and analysis application. Project goals and deliverables are shared by diverse team
members (customers, analysts, software architects and designers) to collaborate
on managing requirements around town or around the globe. Requirements Management’s
rich implementation of requirements gathering, parsing, management, traceability,
base lining and intelligent reporting in a process-driven, methodology, enables
project teams to effectively manage and map requirements. This enables the creation
of a feature rich product. It includes:
- 100% Web-based
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Kovair Requirements Management was designed from the ground up as a web-based application
optimized for project work that is distributed between buildings on your campus,
or at sites around the world. All functionality, including administrative and configuration
processes, are supported over the web. Kovair enables
- Telecommuters work more effectively
- Better management and control of offshore projects
- Better collaboration with different internal functional groups
- Better collaboration with service partners
- Requirements Gathering
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In Kovair, you can use Requirements Gathering techniques in any of the following
ways, applicable to agile requirements management as well.
- Using Rich Text Editor in Kovair, you can open a Microsoft Word document or copy-paste
a portion of formatted text to the Rich Text Editor
- Submitting from your Corporate Website or Portal
- Sending them by Email
- Importing from Microsoft Word Document
- Importing from Microsoft Excel spreadsheet
- Importing form a CSV file with configurable format
- Using any third party Requirements Management and other tools to define Requirements;
and in real-time synchronizing them with Kovair through Kovair's Omnibus
Integration Bus
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Requirements Management tools
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Kovair supports Requirements Management of many flavors - standard as well as proprietary
methodologies or processes. All the capabilities necessary to perform Requirements
Management tools effectively and effortlessly are built-in in Kovair that are accessible
through a highly user-friendly interface. These include:
- Many-to-many single and bi-directional Traceability Relations with proactive and reactive Impact Analysis
- Requirements Reuse
- Requirements Change
Management
- Requirements Base lining
- Requirements Ranking
- Release Roadmap and Decision Support
- Requirements Process Automation
- Integrations with other tools
- Requirements and Development Methodology
- Requirements and Test
Management Tools
- Requirements Reporting in multiple formats
- Requirements Traceability
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Kovair Requirements Management tool has the most comprehensive
Traceability Relation features. Kovair allows multiple types of relations including
custom ones between Requirements. Create logical links (depending, affecting, bi-directional)
between requirements and view in a number of visualizing tools Kovair offers. These
include folder hierarchy
report of Requirement
Traceability, Traceability Matrix and Traceability Relation Network diagram.
Kovair allows both proactive and reactive impact analysis. Impact of changes is
forwarded to stakeholders automatically to ensure synchronization and address corrective
actions so that problems are addressed early to minimize cost of changes at the
end of the lifecycle.
- Requirements Reuse
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In any organization well written and implemented Requirements have a great value.
By reusing these Requirements assets, projects can cut down overall development
time and enhance quality. Kovair has several features to support Requirements reuse
by 'Mass Conditional Cloning', 'Shared Requirements' and 'Versioning with Branching
and Merging'.
- Requirements Change Management
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Requirement changes are the reality of any project. They are also the source of
unbridled cost and time overruns. A well defined and consistent
Change Management process is the only way the Requirement changes can be
reviewed, approved, implemented and tested within acceptable costs and timelines.
Kovair's process engine the Omniprocess allows a design, implementation and automation
of a Change Management process closely related to the automated Requirements Management
process.
- Requirements Ranking
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With thousands of Requirements gathered from various sources any Product Management
or Analyst group faces the daunting task of determining the relative importance
of these Requirements for a set of organizational goals. Kovair helps in gathering
ratings for each Requirement from multiple users against a set of business goals.
This rating process can be embedded within a larger Requirements Management process
and automated using Kovair's Omniprocess engine. After the ratings are done, Kovair
can automatically determine the weighted score for each Requirement and that can
be used for Requirements for proper product management and development decisions.
- Requirements Process Automation
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Through the capabilities of its built-inOmniprocess Workflow engine, Kovair facilitates
complete automation of the Requirements Management workflow- the way it happens
in your organization- by facilitating the creation of a Step-based ormore complex
Task-based process. Most of the Requirements Management tools in the market today
do not come with built in process workflow engine like Kovair does. This capability
helps simplify task management across time zones by replacing manual task assignment
with automatic handoff - such as during the review of Requirements before including
them in a product roadmap or when the developer in Bangalore is finished coding,
the designated tester in Dublin is automatically notified and assigned the next
step of ensuring test case creation and testing. This process configurability and
automation supports any methodology or process (RUP,
Agile Methodology, Scrum, CMMI Process).
If your development is distributed globally this process automation eliminates many
emails, phone calls and coordination of tasks meetings across different time zones
and enhances productivity considerably. The analogy is similar to a fully automated
"lights out" manufacturing facility.
- Requirements and Development Methodology promise. Even if you wish to call your
Requirements "Users Stories"(XP) or "Backlogs" (SCRUM) you can configure Kovair
to use those exact names. But, like most of the organizations if you follow a proprietary
methodology that is loosely related to some well known one, Kovair helps you implement
it without any limitations.
- Requirements Reporting
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Kovair Global Lifecycle produces reports and Requirements documents of various kinds.
They include:
- MRD - marketing Requirements Document, a fully formatted Word document
- SRS - System Requirements Specifications, a fully formatted Word document
- Product Roadmap Document, a fully formatted Word document
- Test Compliance Report, a fully formatted Word document
- Trend Charts
- Burn Down Charts
- Requirements Stability Chart
- Graphical Charts
- Distribution of Requirements by Type, Criticality, Source...or any other custom
field
These reports can be generated by a number of different reporting engines Kovair
supports:
- HTML, enabling direct printing from the Requirements list page
- Export any lists to Excel for additional formatting and manipulation
- Built-in Crystal Report offers easy way to do custom formatting, or create your
own reports from scratch
- Word Reporting enables fully customizable formatting with multi-level data elements
from Kovair Global Lifecycle
- Requirements and Test Management
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Testability and Verifiability are some of the core properties of a good Requirement.
But just Testability is not enough for a successful implementation of Requirements.
One needs to actually create Test Cases for each Testable Requirements and test
them again and again until the release of the product. A Test Management tool is
invaluable to create, execute and manage the Test cases and run results. But it
is imperative to have Traceability relations between the Test cases managed by a
Test Management software and the Requirements so that as Requirements change, the
related Test cases can be kept in step with those changes. Integrated Requirements
Management and Test Management in Kovair's Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)
solution work together to give the users the power of QA driven Requirements Management.
If a third party Test Management Systems (e.g. Quality Center from HP, Test Manager
from IBM Rational) are in current use at a customer, they may be integrated with
Kovair's Requirements Management with many-to-many bi-directional Traceability features.
For that user will need Kovair's Enterprise Solutions.
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- Capture the Voice of the Customer
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With Kovair's multiple capabilities of capturing inputs from customers by emails,
website based inputs or importing of customer documents and putting them through
a well defined Requirements Review Process with the Kovair Omniprocess workflow
by analysts and their management, a company can set up an excellent system of capturing
customer inputs both for new product ideas as well as improvements of existing products.
This provides any company; large or small, a very critical tool to not miss any
inputs from a customer that are always a key factor in enhancing customer satisfaction
as well as bringing competitive edge to its product lines and improving its business
and market share. The payback of this system cannot be underestimated!
- Evaluate and Prioritize Requirements for Releases
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Kovair's Requirements Ranking capabilities and What if Analysis capabilities for
Release Management, provide any Product, Marketing and Engineering Management groups
a very easy and methodical way of analyzing the content of a given release and make
sound decisions that are logic and payback based rather than "gut based" from certain
individuals. This simplifies further buy-in of the outcome and puts all groups in
complete harmony moving forward in developing and managing a good product release.
- Increased Productivity
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Formalizing and automating requirements management and enabling reuse of requirements
speeds project completion by anywhere from 25 to 40% depending on the prevailing
practices in an organization versus ad hoc or manual processes for managing requirements
through Word documents or Spread sheets. So companies cannot and should not think
that this type of tool is only essential in a large organization. A good process
and methodology allows small companies grow faster and manage their growth much
better with proper tools that create good quality and enhanced productivity.
- Better Quality - No more redo's
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Having one version of the truth captured and shared globally by all developers means
fewer design errors make it through the implementation cycle. The result is significantly
less testing time and almost no reworking of the application after system testing.
Total project labor cost is saved by 10-20%.
- Better team collaboration and communication
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Collaborative Requirements Management allows for a shared single repository
with globally distributed teams having web-based access to requirements. This checks
errors as teams work with the same specifications, and anyone with the appropriate
permission can make changes- automatic notifications are sent to other team members
based on the Change Management process set up in the Kovair Requirements Management
system.
- Manage regulatory compliance automatically
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Regulations are really just requirements generated externally. With 100% backwards
and forwards traceability, regulatory compliance is automatically ensured if managed
through Kovair Global Lifecycle/RM, mitigating a big risk to any business.
- Upgrade to the complete ALM Solution
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Requirements Management is very critical but just one of the phases of full Development
Lifecycle. If you are ready to manage rest of the Lifecycle with the same set of
highly usable tools you may want to upgrade to Kovair's Application Lifecycle Management
(ALM) solution. The ALM solution includes
a set of required Applications for SDLC including Requirements Management, all seamlessly
integrated with one another using a single user interface. The applications included
in Kovair's Application Lifecycle Management are:
- Integrating with other tools
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Requirements Management being the start of a development lifecycle process needs
to work with various other tools down the line, to make a development project successful.
These tools include Test Management, Issues Management, IDE, Configuration Management,
Risk Management, Release Management. Though, some of these tools are built-in within
Kovair Global Lifecycle, Kovair's Omnibus - Integration Bus Technology allows organizations
to integrate external best-of-breed tools from third party vendors with Kovair as
well as with other tools in the ecosystem. Whether using the built-in tools, or
external tools, the ALM tool ecosystem created by Kovair Omnibus, works seamlessly
with Requirements Management from Kovair. To use Kovair's Omnibus Integrations Technology,
you need Kovair’s enterprise service bus architecture solution
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For more information, visit Kovair's Application
Life cycle Management (ALM) Solution page.
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