Capture, organize, and prioritize product requirements from anywhere

Building successful products starts with the right requirements. Product managers have many sources to tap for ideas – employee suggestions, spreadsheets, documents, email, and, most important, the mass of consumer-generated content in social media. But traditional methods of requirements capture – static files, spreadsheets, or perhaps an idea portal – are little more than disorganized archives, disconnected from the product development process.

Here’s how some successful companies have succeeded in capturing hundreds of requirements, from any number of sources, in such a way as to track them, evaluate them, and move the best requirements into their product development pipeline:

• Create a centralized repository of all market, customer, competitive, and requirements data. This can save up to 15-20% of each product manager’s time that would otherwise be wasted sifting through files, knowledge bases, spreadsheets, email, even post-it notes.
• Create online customer communities to capture requirements, focus feedback, and protect IP.
• Seed your customer communities with requirements ideas and suggestions from employees and other sources. This “primes the pump” and will generate more suggested requirements.
• Organize backlogged requirements into iterations/sprints, and monitor progress. This is particularly important for Scrum and other Agile development methodologies.
  
  

Accept Requirements is an on-demand requirements management software solution that helps you deliver more successful products and services to market faster. By tightly integrating with Accept Idea Management software and Portfolio Management software, Accept ensures you capture and prioritize requirements, align requirements with company strategy, and unify execution across product teams to deliver better products to market faster.

Learn more about Accept’s suite of innovation software products to find out how you can deliver better products to market more swiftly.