Technology As Innovator

Dear Mr. B. T. Client,

I’m writing toward the completion of my assignment to work with you.

Thank you for having been involving me in part of your vision, so I was able to learn how greatest minds see and seize the world for decades ahead.

Thank you for all the quests you’ve been putting me through, though which I gave more values than what I could.

Thank you for all the knowledge you brought, which opened up a new horizon for me.

Thank you for showing me your commitment, loyalty, passion and sacrifice, so that I saw how painfully and gloriously you carry the world on your shoulders.

Thank you for the party, your ice cream was marvelous.

I really appreciate the time we spent together, and shall treasure the values we shared.

Sincerely,
Tai Tran

Microsoft Word 2007 supports publishing documents to the following blog services: spaces.live.com, blogger.com, SharePoint, communityserver.org, typepad.com, wordpress.com or hosted wordpress blog

User can also choose other types of weblog, as long as the address given is in the correct format.

It’s a nice feature. However, I personally wouldn’t prefer this utility, because I want more control over my content and I’m quite comfortable with typing HTML directly to web-based editors.

But it’s worth a try, as I’m doing now!

Cheers

Problem defined

Managing thousands of artifacts within the requirement phase alone in a project is not an easy task.

Solution

Automation have been provided by these popular software packs

• Documenting Use Cases and documents: Microsoft Word already gives all we need.
• Artifact Repository: Thousands of ways and tools satisfy this purpose. I’d suggest Microsoft SourceSafe and Microsoft SharePoint server.
• Diagram authoring: Rational Rose and Microsoft Visio do better.
• Version control: Many CVS tools are already out there.
• Project Planning: Microsoft Project rocks! Agile’s Product Backlog is also a good tool.

Single Solution

Single solution that addresses most, if not all, issues - a professional Requirement Management Tool that enables the following factors

• Traceability: The efforts spent in wiki(traceability) are greatly reduced. Hence, productivity and team moral are boost.
• Consistency: In a team of nearly twenty people, it might come out that different artifacts owned by different authors vary slightly in styles, indents, numbering. A tool helps to reduce this factor.
• Requirement linking: Reference to other documents, dependencies, extensions are handled in the form of URL links.
• Use Case-to-diagram generation: Many tools allow users to create flow charts from Use Cases

TopTeam Analyst

I recommend this tool: TopTeam Analyst

Demo screenshots

Vendor: technosolutions

TopTeam Analyst is wiki(RUP)-compliant

There are many more requirement management tools, but the reason I am attracted by TopTeam Analyst is that the product is compliant with standards from Rational Unified Process, which I’m am currently working with.