Manage software requirements

[Carlos Marques]

Hi,

I work in software product management.
Currently I m looking for a tool/ best practices, to manage the software requirements from my customers.
What can you recommend me in terms of best practices or case scenarios, with jira?

regards,
Carlos

[Sanjiva Nath]

You can use the open source Wikidsmart platform to define Requirements within Confluence and have them automatically integrated with JIRA. A webinar is scheduled for July 26:

Register here: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/177502144

Webinar: Wikidsmart PM: Requirements Management within Confluence, Integrated with JIRA

Description:
Defining requirements and tracking them through the software delivery process is a constant challenge. Challenges include: tracking requirement completion, quality (bugs and test execution against requirements), and traceability (changes across releases). zAgile's Wikidsmart PM offers an open source and pragmatic approach to Requirements Management by enabling Atlassian's Confluence wiki and JIRA issue tracker to manage Requirements in a powerful, flexible way, while addressing all of the challenges mentioned earlier. Wikidsmart is an open source platform which enables integration of software engineering tools as well as business applications like CRM. In addition, it enables composite applications - such as Wikidsmart PM for Requirements Management - to be manifested within your existing tools and applications.

In this webinar, you learn:

How to formally capture Requirements in the Atlassian Confluence enterprise wiki
How to link Features to GreenHopper stories
How to create a Requirements hierarchy, starting with high-level definitions
How to link Requirements to Use Cases, Design Document and Technical Specifications
How to trigger approval workflows
How to capture activities (development tasks, bug fixes, code checkins) against Requirements
How to log bugs in Atlassian JIRA against Requirements
How to define Test Suites and Test Cases against Requirements

[Radu Dumitriu]

Jira is a tool for issue tracking, not for gathering software requirements. I suppose you want to know about GreenHopper (the Agile stuff). See it here:

http://www.atlassian.com/software/greenhopper/tour/agile-development.jsp

http://blogs.atlassian.com/news/2010/03/game-development.html

Try it, to see how it feels. It's the best way.

P.S.: I come from a former communist country, and Karl Marx isn't exactly my hero; quite the opposite, I may say. Your nickname gives me chills.