Achieving Live Traceability™ of product requirements, as necessitated by industry standards, is the #1 unsolved problem for most product development organizations.
When looking at the end-to-end product development process, siloed teams, tools, and data make it very challenging to trace development activity from initial requirement definition through development and testing. As a result, requirements traceability becomes a time-consuming, error-prone, frustrating, and manual, after-the-fact process. The inability to continually trace ongoing development efforts and changes back to user and system requirements results in missed requirements, defects, rework, delays, audit letters, and cost overruns.
The first step is to baseline current process performance and to focus efforts on traceability since it spans the entire product development process, is a data management concept that is understood, enables systems engineering benefits, and is required by industry standards.
We’ve developed a Traceability Diagnostic to assess your current situation. The Diagnostic inventories traceable data, the systems in which they reside, and your current Traceability Score™.
In this no-cost, guided process, we’ll help you:
- Understand the monetary risk of your current Traceability Debt™
- Uncover the quantifiable ROI of moving to Live Traceability
- Develop a clear plan of action, cost, and timing to achieve Live Traceability