Enabling Collaboration in Distributed Requirements Management

Requirements management, one of the most collaboration-intensive activities in software development, presents significant difficulties when stakeholders are distributed, as in today´s global projects. Because of inadequate social contact, geographically distributed practitioners without appropriate tool support have trouble gaining a consistent understanding of requirements or managing requirement changes. We can alleviate many of these difficulties by integrating collaboration support in practitioners´ work environments. With these needs in mind, we developed a new collaborative tool named EGRET (eclipse-based global requirements tool) for distributed requirements management