Meeting evolving stakeholder needs, managing tight budgets, and ensuring compliance and public accountability requires a modern approach to requirements management. Security, efficiency, and reliability are cornerstones of Modern Requirements4DevOps which is built on Microsoft’s leading Azure DevOps.
Setting up a Product Backlog in Azure DevOps starts with setting up a Process Template.
Azure DevOps provides a flexible environment where teams can customize the Work Item Types and their properties to a great degree.
Once the Process Template is created, the next step is to setup the Dashboards and Sprints according to your Team’s needs.
Agile teams need the ability to move requirements into the ‘Ready’ state.
In Azure DevOps, preparing Agile requirements for an iteration requires the ability to build and import requirements quickly, add tags, make bulk edits, and move requirements to the current iteration easily. When building a review using Azure DevOps, teams need to be able to email requirements, use the discussion to facilitate change, and be able effectively enact those changes and move requirements into the appropriate States and Iterations.
Completing requirements requires the ability to work directly with your Agile team to complete the requirements.
When working within Azure DevOps, this means your developers need to be able to create requirements tasks and move them through the life cycle. As requirements get broken down into tasks, developers need a reliable way to add bugs and test cases to requirements, and to connect with BA’s. Azure DevOps provides a simple interface to build tasks, test cases, bugs, and facilitate discussion.
It is common for the requirements of one project to be a good fit for reuse in another project.
Reusing requirements within Azure DevOps is simple, and is presented in three separate ways in the video below. Teams can choose to clone a requirement in the same project, copy a requirement directly to another project, or reuse an entire Baseline of requirements using the Modern Requirements4DevOps Baseline module.
Azure DevOps allows administrators of projects to set up restrictions.
The options provided for restricting access offer teams full control of their project at a granular level.
In Azure DevOps, the Query tool remains the most powerful feature teams can use.
The built-in query tool allows teams to find and store information from a project and collection. The query tool is used extensively in Modern Requirements4DevOps, where we allow you to quickly output Smart Docs, do Document reviews, output work items, and build advanced reports to meet every need.
*Some Use Case Videos have been reused as the process of completing that Use Case is the same for both Agile and Waterfall teams.*
Setting up a Product Backlog in Azure DevOps starts with setting up a Process Template.
Azure DevOps provides a flexible environment where teams can customize the Work Item Types and their properties to a great degree.
Once the Process Template is created, the next step is to setup the Dashboards and Sprints according to your Team’s needs.
For Waterfall Teams, the types of Work Items might vary to include Business Rules, formal Change Requests, and more.
Waterfall teams typically subscribe to a model of building the highest level of requirements, having them approved, and then breaking them down into lower level requirements. It is common for teams to consider the points of approval to be a “tollgate” that dictates the start of next stage of the requirements lifecycle.
With Modern Requirements4DevOps, teams can control the approval of requirements by first having Stakeholders facilitate requirements change using comments, and then switching them to Approvers for final approval. The act of sending a group of requirements for Review or Approval can be done from the Native Azure DevOps Modules (Sprints, Backlog, Queries), as well as through Smart Docs and the Review module.
Watch the video below to see how the review process can be created using Modern Requirements4DevOps.
It is common for the requirements of one project to be a good fit for reuse in another project.
Reusing requirements within Azure DevOps is simple, and is presented in three separate ways in the video below. Teams can choose to clone a requirement in the same project, copy a requirement directly to another project, or reuse an entire Baseline of requirements using the Modern Requirements4DevOps Baseline module.
Azure DevOps allows administrators of projects to set up restrictions.
The options provided for restricting access offer teams full control of their project at a granular level.
In Azure DevOps, the Query tool remains the most powerful feature teams can use.
The built-in query tool allows teams to find and store information from a project and collection. The query tool is used extensively in Modern Requirements4DevOps, where we allow you to quickly output Smart Docs, do Document reviews, output work items, and build advanced reports to meet every need.
Building Use Case models can allow teams to easily recognize a process, system, or solution.
For this reason we allow you to take two different approaches to building a Use Case.
You can either write your Use Case as a textual narrative, or create a Use Case diagram that can be published as a textual narrative.
Identifying orphaned requirements in Azure DevOps can be a simple task.
Being able to properly manage these orphaned requirements quickly and effectively is another story. This is why we provide the ability to add your orphaned requirements into a traceability matrix and easily visualize what relationships need to be created.
Handling the Impact of change can be difficult, especially as projects scale.
For this reason, we allow your team to handle the impact of change both proactively, and retroactively.
See the videos below to identify how your team can effectively manage Impact Analysis!
Azure DevOps excels at version control.
By creating a version of work items anytime they are saved, Azure DevOps provides incredible traceability of work item changes. Without Modern Requirements4DevOps however, the changes are difficult to represent in a digestible manner. This is why we allow you to easily create Baselines of groups of requirements to identify, and manage, the changes that are happening in your project.
Modern Requirements4DevOps offers teams the ability to create well-structured requirements assets that promote consistency, and make capturing requirements simpler. In this video, we cover how you can build traceable questionaires that promote better and more traceable documents from meetings with Stakeholders.
Setting up a Product Backlog in Azure DevOps starts with setting up a Process Template.
Azure DevOps provides a flexible environment where teams can customize the Work Item Types and their properties to a great degree.
Once the Process Template is created, the next step is to setup the Dashboards and Sprints according to your Team’s needs.
In native Azure DevOps, there is no good way to create Diagrams and connect them to your requirements.
That’s why our Modern Requirements4DevOps solution provides a built-in Diagram feature that is built into several places. Using the videos below, your team will be able to create Diagrams easily, and even add Diagrams to your Smart Docs!
When working in Azure DevOps there are a few ways for your team to structure their project architecture.
Native Azure DevOps supports the idea of working together in one collection with many separate projects. For some, this method of creating disparate projects is enough. For others however, they want closely related projects to roll up into a single project portfolio. This is supported as well, and is discussed in full in the video below.
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