RTIME provides an easy way to map requirements to other downstream work products and deliverables such as test cases, delivery tasks, modules, applications, documentation, systems and other requirements. Once mapped, you have a complete picture in any direction of how these elements impact and relate to one another. As your lifecycle progresses and things change, reporting and fast screen access to mapped items will give you and your team much greater agility. RTIME keeps the many moving parts of your project and your team in sync and tied together.

1) Agility - By mapping tasks, tests and assets to requirements, you can easily change requirements mid-release. Typically, between 30% to 40% of the requirements that end up in a release come after the release plan was finalized. Adding requirements 'in-flight', requires visibility to the impacts and resource trade-offs you often have to make. Using RTIME, you can remove or add requirements easily because you know exactly what tasks, tests or assets are impacted. You can make informed decisions fast and meet market and customer needs.

2) Customer Driven Software/Optimized Investment - If you can trace requirements back to their source and know their business objectives priority score, you can easily make decisions about what new investments to make and ensure your software is what your customers are really looking for.

3) Internal Strife Reduction/Process Improvement - Tracing requirements to defect types lets developers and requirement owners know if code defects, poorly defined requirements or other factors cause defects. Rather than wasting cycles in the blame game, your team can focus on improvement through better understanding of the causes of defects. And that understanding is paramount to future defect avoidance and improved quality.

4) Team Knowledge Transfer - Do you worry that if key team members leave your project or company, that project success is in jeopardy? This can especially be true with project leads and product managers. Your documented knowledge base should cover a full set of requirements and a project plan. But the true state of you projects is best described in an on-line database that captures all of the key elements of your project, not just a static project plan. RTIME's ease of use lets people new to the team get up to speed quickly.

5) Rework Elimination - With full traceability everyone is kept on the same page. If an approved requirement is modified, test team members and task owners are automatically notified. No more undocumented features, no mystery features, no missed features, no rework, no delays and no surprises.

6) Cost Reduction - By mapping Assets to your requirements you'll find you can significantly simplify upgrades. Without tracing assets such as target systems, it's easy to miss a component in an upgrade, or to package the wrong component. Stumbling on upgrades is one of the major causes of negative customer satisfaction and can consumes tremendous team resources.

7) Accurate Estimations - Most new software projects contain many elements that are similar in nature to elements in earlier projects. Tracing tasks to requirements can really improve your accuracy rate in estimation. With RTIME you can readily see what was estimated to deliver a requirement and compare that to the associated task actuals that were delivered. Now you can put forward your estimate to you customers and managers with the confidence that only grounding in actuals for similar projects can provide. RTIME's built in estimation reports take a few seconds to access- but can save you hours and even days of debate!

8) Time to Market - Get your release plans lined up faster and with more accuracy. By tracing requirements to tasks and tests, your historical data will help you develop an accurate analysis in the release planning stages. We honestly need to knock on the wood here, but we have never missed a release date in our history and we have never missed delivering a client committed enhancement!

9) Customer Satisfaction - The classic traceability justification really goes hand-in-hand with test coverage. By tracing requirements to tests you'll know you have complete test coverage. With RTIME you'll certainly know that all of your requirements have been tested. You'll can also be confident that the requirements were approved and complete, and that everything needed to satify the requirement is included in the deliverable. Higher quality, lower defect rates, happier customers.

10) Competitive Software - Sure, it takes a few minutes each day to keep the information in RTIME current, but the cost and time incurred without it adds up quickly. If your collective team (BAs, Development, QA/Test) contains only a dozen members, you'll see tangible and intangible benefits right away. Traceability is key to the benefits above that all boil down to the bottom line of better, more competitive software. Don't take our word for it. Use the ROI analysis with industry expert's estimations of rework savings and other factors to see how much value traceability can bring to your organization.