Why does requirement quality matter?
Requirements are the foundation of every project. When they are ambiguous or vague, they are easily misinterpreted. With many requirements being used by internal and external teams, misinterpretations lead to a substantial amount of rework, incomplete scope, and potentially catastrophic errors if not caught in time. Since more than half of project failures can be traced back to poor requirements, ensuring each requirement is clear and concise is a prerequisite to reducing errors and completing projects on time and on budget.
How QVscribe improves the quality of requirements
QVscribe uses Natural Language Processing to proactively check for best practices identified by associations such as INCOSE and leading industry experts. By automating quality and consistency, QVscribe encourages engineers to be innovative and build complex systems with reduced risk of introducing errors in the later stages of development. Teams can standardize the way requirements are written, so the conversation can be elevated, focusing on what matters: the content.
Save Time and Money
Good requirements can reduce the review process time by more than 50%, saving your team time, money, and frustrations. By reducing the number of line-by-line checks from tedious human errors, QVscribe cuts review time in half. This frees up time for focusing on later stages of product development, achieving a complete scope, and other factors of ensuring that a project is successful.
QVscribe uses Natural Language Processing to proactively check for best practices identified by associations such as INCOSE and leading industry experts. By automating quality and consistency, QVscribe encourages engineers to be innovative and build complex systems with reduced risk of introducing errors in the later stages of development. Teams can standardize the way requirements are written, so the conversation can be elevated, focusing on what matters: the content.
Automated Best Practice Compliance:
Remembering every rule is nearly impossible, and it’s tedious to refer back to years of resources each time you write requirements. Automating checks for industry rules and your best practices with QVscribe eliminates human errors and saves time.
Colour Coded Error Detection:
QVscribe gives a simple way to identify priorities and processes to correct requirement issues, with efficient and user-friendly ways to author requirements on the go or to overview of an entire document’s quality.
Customizable configurations:
QVscribe’s configurations can be adjusted to suit your project’s needs. By adding or removing specific trigger words, requirements will be standardized. QVscribe Application Server’s customized configurations create a seamless and consistent review process.
How does QVscribe work?
What QVscribe checks for
Quality Analysis
QVscribe’s Quality Analysis is your expert requirements assistant. Checking for compliance with standards such as the INCOSE Guide for Writing Requirements, it ensures every detail is accounted for including proper use of imperatives, clear language, and other industry best practices.
QVscribe allows authors to get a comprehensive view of their document without leaving their requirements management tool. The dashboard view allows authors to understand their progress and see any underlying warnings throughout the document.
Unit & Term Consistency
Detection, enumeration, and classification of all measurement units and noun phrases to help verify their correct use and location in the requirements. Avoid costly errors by ensuring consistency across your document, regardless of how many authors have worked on it.
Similarity
QVscribe automatically identifies that the pictured requirements are quite similar. In fact, these requirements are also missing important information, as each requirement should stand on its own, without the need to reference headings for context. QVscribe makes it easy to spot missing information, duplicate requirements, and contradictions by showing you the most likely suspects and highlighting the differences.
Jumpstart the authoring of your requirements with fill-in-the-blank templates that are pre-configured to follow the Easy Approach to Requirements Syntax (EARS). EARS conformance ensures natural language requirements are simple and complete.
QVscribe integrates with the following platforms:
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