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Some of the above may look trivial at first, but if you happen to manage 100s (or 1000s) of requirements, these features can dramatically improve the way you work with them. scan all requirements to identify duplicates, using semantic techniques (based on NLTK, a python library for natural language processing).perform various syntax checks on the requirements structure (es.: find duplicate IDs, identify 'orphaned' requirements, etc.).support the rendering of requirement attributes as XMind markers (es.: 1,2,3 markers for a priority attribute).support various export structures, as detailed in its configuration file (config.yml).

More details on the process can be found in this article.

Use reqmapper to generate a mindmap from the exported files.

Export the requirements into 3 or more spreadsheets, structured into business/user/system requirements.

Gather requirements using any tool capable of exporting into Excel spreadsheets.

Formulate requirements using shall statements, completed with specific attributes.

Capture requirements following various methods (interviews, bibliography review, brainstorming, etc.).

The mechanism followed in typical requirements capture tasks is simple: It can generate a XMind map starting from the requirements contained in Excel spreadsheets, and has been tested with information exported from DOORS. If you don't own a licence for those tools, or simply you want to try to make sense of the captured requirements in a more visual way, reqmapper may help. In those situations, requirements are captured and managed using either basic tools (Excel spreadsheets?) or very sophisticated frameworks (es.: IBM Rational DOORS).

Xmind pro excel generator#

As we tried to describe in a LinkedIN article, capturing requirements is a long and complex endeavour, but if often a mandatory step in large projects: this mindmap generator was built to work with the requirements capture logic described in the article. Requirements are a fundamental and often underestimated part of Project Management. Despite many discussions about adopting Agile techniques fully, many of these projects are run using a mixture of traditional waterfall and modern Agile tools. Working with large implementation projects is a complex and scary endeavour.

ReqMapper (Requirements Mapper) is a renderer for requirements written with a formal definition into a XMind readable mindmap.