What are you people using to layout firmware requirements?

[Javier1]

 

Recently, one of the projects i was working on just went sideways, one of the reasons was the requirements being thrown at the developer (mail/whatsap/spurious comments) by more than one stakeholder (usually contradicting themselves).

The requirement file ended up being a stinking pdf BLOB of contradictory not updated and sometimes redundant requirements.

I dont want this to happen again, so im curious how is everyone here managing "complex" system development?

Is there a clear winner in between Requirement Management software tools?

I am looking for a tool that also produces something that can be presented to nonTechnical stakeholders without too much translation.

[Pavel A.]

For simple projects you can get it done with a Kanban board (like available on github) and classic scrum "planning poker" procedure.

But you asked about a complex one. In a complex project there usually is one or more dedicated management resources (PMs or whatever they are called). This is the key. Have a dedicated person(s) who take care of appeasing the stakeholders and isolate developers from the nuisance.

This type of job is now jeopardized by chatgpt, btw.

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The actual software does not matter much, can be even a blob of pdf's.

One my customer uses monday.com. Not bad, but again, without permanent reviewing and trimming it can become a smelly pile.

My former employer, owner of PCI vendor id 0x8086, has a huge system based on something Azure. Very expensive and again needs a dedicated layer of people to manage. Not for average company.

[Javier1]

Thanks @Pavel A.​ , i researched a bit about monday.com, i probably wont ending up using it.

But their documentation its good enough, so i get a view of whats important and how to organice stuff.

>>The actual software does not matter much, can be even a blob of pdf's.

as im always shortstaffed i was looking for something making my life easier. (but i happen to be also shortfunded so no paying frameworks).

A blob of PDfs doesnt sound like a ideal solution to me, lets see what i end up doing, probably something outputing html

[Pavel A.]

How do you see the ideal interface? Interactive "canvas" shareable with others ("canban board" or "mind map") [with file attachments] or printable document [ + optional online view] ?