Product planning process
There is a lot of pressure on the product planning process in most companies. Everyone wants a hand in new product definition and almost everyone has to contribute in order to make a new product successful.
With so many parties involved, a system that helps you sort out the relevant ideas - those with the most merit – will mean a lot for the overall efficiency in the product planning process.
Our product planning solution goes one step further: it also supports the incorporation of customer feedback and a structured process for evaluating ideas and assuring that the good ones are developed immediately.
Requirements management tool
Keeping track of your requirements is the key to avoiding late changes in a project and therefore the key to having projects done on time, at decided cost and avoiding quality problems due to the late changes.
Knowing the stakeholders
Requirements management is first basically a matter of knowing who the stakeholders are for your product; both end customers and other external as well as internal.
Secondly requirements management deals with how the stakeholder needs is broken down from high level requirements to lower levels and distributed to solution providers.
Requirements Management tool
With all the different products a company has, with increased need for shorter time to market there is certainly need for an efficient way of dealing with requirements. And the process will need system support with a requirements management tool to keep track of all requirements, see the history, why changes has been made, what requirements affect what solutions etc.