Requirements Management (Score 1, Interesting)

Alot has been happening the the Requirements Management space lately. Moving away from documents and into Requirement Management Repositories is alot simpler and promotes interaction. Applications such as Borland's CaliberRM or StarTeam allow users to enter their specifications and requirements as electronic forms. Once requirements, change requests, or specifications are entered into the system, users have the option to export to various formats such as MS Word / Excel. Greater tracability and auditing is available in this model because change requests, defect management can all trace back to a functional requirement. Using tools like Borland StarTeam SCM even allows you to go further and trace requirements to actual source code. Another big benefit is that seeing changes between revisions in Requirements is alot easier since there is no diff'ing involved.