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is there pre setup that needs to happen like identifying actors,that was not discussed
Do you have versioning buit into the requirements?
How much of that functionality exists in the MS-WORD Plug-in?
Do you have to write your requirement statements in a specific order
In the webinar you refered to a Baseline Magazine article saying the requirements are #1 risk to project success.
Can you give me a link to the article?
Thanks
Thanks for your feedback! Let me tackle the above questions all in one response:
1) is there pre setup that needs to happen like identifying actors,that was not discussed
No pre-setup is required! With RAVEN, you just start typing, and it learns your actors and terms as it goes along. However, if you want to establish a standard Glossary of terms that everyone can use on their projects, you can do so. Try it yourself and see, by visting http://www.ravenflow.com/eval-raven
2) Do you have versioning built into the requirements?
Yes — RAVEN Professional does provide versioning of requirements. When a project is checked into the RAVEN Collaboration Space, a new version is created. The Collaboration Space stores the version history of each process, and lets you view, or even restore older versions.
3) How much of that functionality exists in the MS-WORD Plug-in?
During the webinar we demonstrated RAVEN Professional. The Word Plug-in to which you refer is called RAVEN Express. RAVEN Express allows you to created diagrams for specific blocks of text that you highlight in a document. It also performs analysis/error checking on the text. But that is all — you don’t get any of the other capabilities that you saw in the webinar. If you want to organize multiple use cases in a project structure, link them together, create responsibility views, or establish a Glossary, you need the full RAVEN Professional product.
4) Do you have to write your requirement statements in a specific order?
The Activity Diagram depicts the flow of the process from beginning to end. So yes, the order of the statements determines the flow of the process. As you saw in the demo, the first sentence corresponds to the first box in the diagram; the second sentence to the second box, and so on.
5) In the webinar you refered to a Baseline Magazine article saying the requirements are #1 risk to project success. Can you give me a link to the article?
I’ll have to let Adam answer this one — I do not have the article.
Cheers,
Jim