Get requirements right the first time
Serena’s Dimensions RM is an enterprise-ready software solution for managing and tracking requirements throughout a project lifecycle. RM tightly integrates requirements with change and configuration management through a single process model enabling full traceability.
As a part of Serena’s Dimensions 10, as a stand alone, or for use with other Serena products, Dimensions RM is the solution for effective requirements management.
Ensure clear project expectations and enable accurate project completion
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Dimensions RM
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| - Collaborate, define, gather and link project requirements
- Enable and archive discussion threads and change requests between authorized users
- Access and utilize a reliable, scalable data repository with The Power of Oracle®
- Automatically track versioning, state transitions, and change approval
- Access and alter data using Microsoft Word and/or web client
- Integrate with Mercury Quality Center and IBM/Rational Software Modeler
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Powerful, yet simple requirements management
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| Dimensions RM supports three methodologies that can be used together or separately, and that increase ease of use and speed of adoption: - Capture key attributes bi-directionally via MS Word
- Create new “documents,” or import existing MS Word documents through a Word and rich text “document view” on the Dimensions RM web client
- Enter new requirements into the Dimensions RM web client using your organization’s form view
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Plan, model and prototype applications before development begins
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| Use Serena Composer to model and prototype requirements. This brings visibility to the relationships and dependencies between requirements to all stakeholders. - Compose fully functional user interface designs to ensure a better end-user experience.
- Model key activity flows and interaction scenarios before and during application development.
- Publish high-fidelity application prototypes so users see exactly what they're getting.
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Your next great project starts here - define an accurate and knowable starting point.
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| Assure release consistency and produce milestone checkpoint documents by baselining a set of requirements. - Baseline one to many requirements or a requirements document
- True baselining and versioning capability with full history of all changes
- Visual identification of baselined requirements that are suspect or changed
- Perform impact assessments using baselines
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Trace requirements through project lifecycle
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| - Full traceability via the web on one requirement or one project; with no
‘limitations’ or special proprietary scripting languages - Understand which requirements – high-level marketing or business requirements - map to functional requirements
- See and analyze outstanding change requests, testing status and project status
- Visually identify suspect or changed requirements
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Keep the entire team up-to-date and informed through simple and powerful reporting capabilities.
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| - Publish requirements documents using MS Word from the web browser for key stakeholder review
- Report on any and all requirements definition, baselines, change impact and traceability
- Use pre-defined reports or create your own either on the web or desktop
- Report on requirements in one release or across releases and projects
- Export to numerous formats, such as Excel, XML, CSV
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IT and Business Benefits
- Use RM’s bi-directional MS word interface capturing key attributes such as priority
- Manage your requirements lifecycle using your web browser
- Collaborate easily, enabling and archiving discussion threads and change requests between authorized users
- Integrates with Serena TeamTrack to capture issues and defects as requirements
- Provides requirements to development groups utilizing Serena PVCS
- Integrates with automated test platforms
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