What is requirements?

Just finalized my analysis on Requirements Management Systems and don’t you just love statements from tool vendors such as: 

• X will improve your quality 2x
• X will make you innovate faster by 50%

Is it just me or isn’t it promising a tad too much to say that a requirement system will make you Innovate faster?

 

Anyhow, interesting market and Doors from IBM (prev. Telelogic) still keep a firm grip of most shares it seems. RMS through thin-clients is hot, in the cloud is even hotter… but where does requirements management belong?  

 

Would you prefer the traditional setup, a “thin” setup with in-house server/web-solution or a distributed hosted service through the “cloud”?

 

Or maybe you would prefer the agile puritan’s choice - “no RMS”?

 

Ah just went back to the webpage of the tool that promised me to innovate faster and just saw that if I use their RMS I will on top of it all satisfy my customers. It’s almost too good to be true, it’s “everything out of the box” all over again.