FAQ

Would your IT initiatives benefit from better-defined requirements?
Requirements-Online™ assists your teams with organizing and articulating the needs of your business

Would the results of your IT projects benefit from a clearer definition of the scope of the work?
Our service focuses on clarifying the scope of the work that your team must address.

Do you need better control over changes in project direction, or changes in requirements?
Requirements-Online™ automatically tracks changes in all major elements of requirements

Do you need to demonstrate better control over your software changes, or to have a less labor-intensive way of documenting control?
Requirements-Online™ provides numerous features that assist you with demonstrating control over changes in requirements as required for Sarbanes-Oxley and other audits.

Do you need a better tool for specifying requirements than word processing documents or systems that were not designed for specification of detailed requirements information?
Your teams need Requirements-Online™.

Are you tired of watching your team spend more time managing documentation than understanding the requirements that must be satisfied?
Your teams need Requirements-Online™ now!

Frequently Asked Questions...

What information do you save in the Requirements-Online repository?
The Requirements-Online repository stores information about the components that make-up your requirements, as well as the user-specified relationships between these components. The system’s repository retains all details provided by Users but not in a rigid, inflexible form. And with our guided facilitation process, Users never start with a blank page when specifying requirements.

How does Requirements-Online work?
Requirements-Online is web-based service that helps business managers communicate with IT about the needs of the business for new technology. It is built upon basic models that most of us use to organize our work lives.
Basic questions such as who, what, when, where and why
Business categorization as simple as people, places and things
Transformational models such as Inputs » Processes » Outputs

Does your service eliminate having to go to meetings?
We provide facilitation at two levels: specifying requirements, and facilitation of discussions between business managers and IT professionals. Requirements-Online does not eliminate the need for collaboration. Our purpose is to make working on requirements more value intense.

How would Requirements-Online help us since we rely primarily on Use Cases?
The Requirements-Online process takes business inputs and transforms them into Use Case outputs. Users can express themselves in business concepts, and IT professionals can evaluate those expressions in Use Case form.

Who should be Users of Requirements-Online services?
Managers for:
· Specification of business needs / information
· Sharing of business expertise

IT Professionals (Analysts & Development personnel) for:
· Review and validation of business information
· Inputs to design work

Project Managers:
· Project creation
· Specification of project goals, scope, team members, etc
· Tracking of progress on requirements specification

With Requirements-Online’s on-demand services, you don't have another application to support. Our online services save your valuable IT resources for other projects. We take care of application support activities for our services.