SCOPE OF THE TOOL
ObjectiverTM is a tool that supports the whole requirements engineering process.
TOWARDS COMPLETE & CONSISTENT SETS OF REQUIREMENTS
- Support elicitation, modeling, and requirements document generation
- No wishful thinking left, no dust left under the rug
- No useless requirement
- Provides systematic ways
- to detect incompleteness
- to validate completeness
CONVENIENT FOR WATERFALL & AGILE SLC
Typical scenarios:
- Waterfall: as a business owner, you prepare a requirements document, for instance to issue a call for tender. Or you receive a user requirements document and you want to analyze it and produce system requirements
- Agile: as a product owner
- you elicit a set of high-level goals first
- next, for each sprint, you collect the set of requirements to be considered, in line with the high-level goals
- you keep the backlog consistent with up-to-date customer’s needs
- you perform impact analyses of change requests in an easier way
ON TOP OF DESIGN MODELLING TOOLS
- Focus on intentional properties instead of detailed data and behaviors
- Focus on the problem instead of on the solution
- Declarative & prescritive statements
- Makes the value chain behind requirements explicit
- Strongly related with operational models (like UML classes, use cases, activities, …) and adressing the WHY question
COMPANION OF REQUIREMENTS MANAGEMENT TOOLS
- RM tools:
- good at managing existing sets of requirements
- limited help to discover, formulate correct and complete set of requirements
- RE tools:
- Focus on discovering and specifying the right set of requirements (correct & complete).