Enfocus Requirements Suite™, a requirements management software tool, brings value across the board, aligns business objectives, and benefits the whole team.

Business Benefits

• Ensure business objectives are defined, understood, and achieved
• Focus stakeholders and the development team on delivering high-value solutions
• Focus IT on delivering value and align IT with the business
• Reduce IT costs and time by decreasing project rework
• Allow more accurate cost estimates due to better-defined and completed requirements
• Increase customer satisfaction through stakeholder engagement and participation
• Fully address software requirements and business process and organizational change requirements
• Engage stakeholders in key project lifecycle activities, resulting in better project outcomes
• Significantly reduce risk of project failure due to stakeholder dissatisfaction with outcomes

IT Benefits

• Define and manage quality requirements and user stories early in the development lifecycle to verify that the final software or application product delivers
• Mitigate release date extensions and costly fixes
• Deliver products that are more in line with business needs, budgets, and schedules

Team Benefits

• Project managers feel more comfortable with time and budget estimates
• Business analysts demonstrate to stakeholders why certain requirements take priority over others or have to be eliminated or deferred
• Designers know which application characteristics, such as performance, scalability and usability, to emphasize and why
• Coders understand how many resources they should devote to developing specific features
• Software analysts assign testing resources more efficiently based on requirements importance
• Quality assurance staff determine the level of test effort necessary for each requirement and whether to reduce or increase test efforts

Specific Benefits for:

PMOs/Project managers

• Establish your problem statement so you can get the project team and stakeholders focused on solving it
• Improve relationships and improve communication — your two biggest requirements-gathering skills
• Prioritize requirements based on what is important and eliminate requirements that have minimal value to the business
• Map stakeholders’ needs directly to requirements — let them know how their voice was heard

Business Analysts

• Reap the full benefits of cloud computing
• Maximize stakeholder involvement throughout the entire development lifecycle
• Share insightful details on user cases, traceability, features, and requirements and export them as HTML or PDF files
• Bundle and prioritize requirements – move right away on what’s important

Chief Information Officer

• Deliver innovation by blowing past project failures and delays
• Empower IT to improve and speed up business processes
• Become more agile and responsive to dynamic business environments
• Optimize cost-savings and value

Business User

• Let project leaders and IT see and understand your needs
• Store business rules and process information so you don’t have to repeat the same information every time
• Facilitate a common understanding of the project vision and scope and the business objectives
• Address all aspects of strategy, people, process, and technology

Organizational change professionals

• Introduce and implement new processes effectively and on time
• Get user buy-in from the beginning and increase satisfaction with end results
  • Manage multiple user needs, timelines, and launch dates
  • Maintain information on business procedures and rules to apply to the next project or change initiatives