I am leading a fairly massive project right now that is in it’s idea phase (just getting off the ground) that has more questions than answers today. With all of the uncertainty, our standard methodology for tracking requirements and gathering estimates won’t cut it. However, I still have to build a model and get the data that management needs for corporate accounting and budgeting purposes.
I’ve been asked to simply document the assumptions we’re making as a project team and that the developers and application owners would be able to provide a very high level estimate for the work as needed by the business for budgeting purposes…
I need a tool that will also allow assumptions to be tied to high level requirements in a 1 to many relationship so that any changes to an assumption will allow us to identify where more estimation work is required.
Example…
Assumption:
We will operate with a single facility responsible for x, y, and z.
Requirement/Scope:
– This system will need to have an additional facility added.
– This other system will need to be capable of processing x, y, and z.
So at the end of the day, if my assumption changes I want to quickly see that I have at least an impact to 2 of my requirements/scope lines…
I think this is called “traceability” (for example Requirements traceability) so, include that word in your search terms.