Project Management/Development/Requirements Tools

In the past as a project manager, I  came across various tools to management the never-ending lists of requirements. The following tools specialize in different key areas:

• Requirements Gathering
• Protopying of Products
• Reporting
• Use Case Modeling
• Managing Actors & Resources
• Collaborative Work Among Stakeholders

While Microsoft Project is best for timelines and allotting resources, its a major hassle getting it fine-grained as some of these tools. Also, it does not possess some of these major functions.

I bring this up because with all the major stakeholders and moving pieces in the auctions project, and because of the unique way that it has to be project-managed, we need more order in managing various resources and artifacts.

The tools are as follows:

• http://www.gatherspace.com/
• http://www.acceptsoftware.com/products/accept_360/index.html
• http://www.sparxsystems.com.au/platforms/requirements_management.html
• http://www.artifactsoftware.com/index.html
• http://sourceforge.net/projects/truc/
• http://xuse.sourceforge.net/
• http://www.irise.com/products/
• http://www.lucidmodels.com/
• http://www.speedev.com/index.htm
• http://www.technosolutions.com/topteam_use_case.html

Check out the WikiPage for “Comparison of project management software” for a more comprehensive list of software.