Requirements Management

Requirements Management

Serena helps you orchestrate your entire requirements management process – helping you give your customers what they really want, accelerate your development, and confidently deliver high-quality requirements. Unlike rigid and complex requirements tools, Serena provides comprehensive requirements capabilities, lightning-quick process coordination, and easily reusable requirements across the entire application lifecycle, no matter how many different teams, tools, changes, or methodologies are involved.

Serena customers have been able to dramatically shorten release times, increase customer satisfaction, and reduce overall development costs:

• Accelerate time-to-market by 80% and increase efficiency by 50%.
• Save millions of dollars each year by eliminating siloed tools and wasteful manual processes
• Reduce rework & accelerate development by 50% by automating processes.

1. Comprehensive Engagement

Serena provides organizations comprehensive capabilities to manage requirements from initial request all the way through to production release. Serena can can help organizations deliver what their customers really want by enabling tight collaboration throughout the entire requirements lifecycle – including requirements definition, requirements development, and requirements validation. With Serena, organizations can capture requests, create high-fidelity prototypes, manage detailed requirements hierarchies and linkages, and do much more.

Serena helps business users get detailed visibility into how their requirements are progressing across the entire application lifecycle, no matter how many different processes and tools are involved. Unlike solutions that require thick-client installations or have limited web capabilities, Serena helps promote collaboration with partners and customers via a robust web solution for requirements definition, modeling, and approval. And real-time status updates for any requirement – no matter the tool or methodology – helps organizations reduce the time and cost in communicating status to all stakeholders.

2. Lightning-Quick Coordination

Serena helps organizations develop requirements faster by automating handoffs and breaking down the requirements silos across customers, teams, and tools. Serena accelerates the entire requirements management process by orchestrating the flow of information and processes across different team members and stakeholders. Serena can especially help organizations that are challenged with hybrid agile and waterfall development methodologies and tools. Flexible workflows and automatic notifications streamline communication, review, and approval of requirements across global stakeholders, while common metrics and dashboards ensure everyone is on the same page. Automated audit trails and integrated links between specs, variants, code, tests, and releases helps ensure all releases meet customer requirements and regulatory standards. Serena also provides process-based metrics that help organizations reduce cycle time for each step in the requirements, development, and delivery process.

3. Quality with Confidence

Managing requirements would be relatively easy if it weren't for change. Serena helps organizations confidently and efficiently deliver high-quality releases by making it easier to reuse requirements and manage changes across tools, teams, and releases.

Serena provides a unified change management process across all tools, teams, and processes to ensure all the right people are involved in reviewing potential changes to requirements. While dashboards and alerts provide real-time visibility into any change, Serena's enterprise impact analysis also helps everyone easily identify which projects and customers are impacted by changes to requirements.

Unlike some requirements management tools that have requirements embedded deep inside documents, Serena provides "requirements containers" that help organizations quickly baseline, compare, and reuse sets of requirements from other projects. Serena also provides an orchestrated process to review and control inheritance or duplication of requirements.

 

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