In today's webinar, Thorny Issues in Software Requirements, Karl presented some greatly detailed information regarding the challenges related to managing software requirements, and the grey areas that product managers and business analysts have to deal with every day. For a run through and solutions to these thorny issues, you can view the recorded webinar (flash or mp4) or download the slide deck or audio, which has tons of great examples. Some interesting questions that were asked during...

Defining requirements is a critical step in product development that plays heavily on the success of any release. That’s why we’re happy to announce a partnership with Process Impact that will see the consultancy’s requirements engineering templates integrated into FeaturePlan. By using the integrated Process Impact templates in FeaturePlan’s Document Center module, users will be able to streamline the process of defining requirements, allowing them to create comprehensive market and product re...

To download Ryma's Guide to Building Business Cases MRDs and PRDs, click here. Boy, I don't know anything that causes more miscommunication in product management than when we say "requirements" instead of "market requirements". You'd think that the context would be enough to clarify what is meant, but it's not. It turns out there're lots of different types of requirements, and the product management team is involved with most of them. To keep this post uncluttered and focused, I'm going to be ...

Our webinar today covered the important aspects of a well written market requirements document, a business case and a product requirements document. The full webinar can be found here. The MP3 and slides are also available. We also showed off FeaturePlan 2012, our latest version of our product management software solution, which now includes Document Center, an easy to use document view that allows product managers to write a PRD, MRD or business case directly within FeaturePlan. It expor...

Today at Ryma, we're excited to announce FeaturePlan 2012, a new version of our industry-leading product management software. One of the solution's new features is Document Center, an easy-to-use document editor that allows product managers to rapidly build documents such as Market Requirements (MRD), Product Requirements (PRD) and Business Cases while integrating analytics dashboards and the content stored in FeaturePlan’s database. FeaturePlan 2012 redefines how product managers create docume...