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There are many goals that go to make a sound Requirements Management process, the most important of which is making sure that the right requirements make it through to the final application as it is developed. There have been many tools developed over the years to help with this. First generation tools were primarily geared toward documenting the different stages that requirements definitions go through; together with keeping track of what requirements are still ‘in’ and which are ‘out’.

Next generation technologies, such as Jama Software’s Contour, address the broader set of issues that surround and underpin the Requirements Management process. With a tool like Contour, control of important business issues such as reducing and managing the costs and overhead of the requirements process are well covered. This is critical when you consider that a poorly executed requirements definition process can consume staff time and resources at a prodigious rate. Contour is also well-equipped to control the important underpinning of any such process, specifically ensuring that all relevant stakeholders are kept in the process loop through a collaborative architecture.

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