Modern Requirements Blog

Are User Stories and Requirements interchangeable?
If you work in an agile environment, you probably hear terms like “user story” and “requirements” being thrown around all of the time, but have you ever stopped to think about what they really mean? In an agile system where so much is flexible and … Read More

Why building requirements inside your Diagrams is an effective approach.
Process visualization has become an increasingly popular, beneficial, and effective approach for not only generating business workflows, but also for eliciting the needs of a working system.

We know that tools which create visual maps of activities have proven to be invaluable … Read More

Most businesses know about the practice of DevOps but few manage to successfully implement the powerful methodology.

The term ‘DevOps’ is often bandied about by management as a potential solution but, and let’s be honest, without a competent business analyst it’s impossible to realize the full potential DevOps could have for … Read More

What is a Requirements Management Software?
Requirements management has slowly but surely become one of the most essential and critical aspects of any project lifecycle. Clearly defining the requirements which are expected to be fulfilled by the developers & engineers in your company helps decide the fate of your software and … Read More

Why is Requirements Management Important?
Requirements management is arguably more important in the medical devices industry than in any other space – it could mean the difference between life and death for vulnerable patients who depend on medical equipment to live. The factors of safety, reliability, security, and quality control are … Read More

We traditionally approach Documents, Diagrams and Mockups as a means to draw requirements out – we use them as an elicitation tool. But what if these common practices also translated directly into actual Requirements. What if these modes of elicitation were married to the process of Requirements authoring?
This isn’t … Read More

Our team is incredibly pleased to announce that our flagship product, Modern Requirements4TFS, has been rebranded to Modern Requirements4DevOps! This has been done to keep our branding in sync with Microsoft’s rebranding of VSTS as Azure DevOps Service & TFS as Azure DevOps Server.

 
We have also changed our corporate logo.
 
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Modern Requirements4DevOps (aka MR4TFS) is a Requirements Management Solution for Azure DevOps (formerly Azure DevOps). Seamlessly integrated, Modern Requirements extends the platform to include a full-featured set of professional requirements management tools.
Modern Requirements on Azure DevOps offers users better elicitation, collaboration, specification, and management of requirements on an anywhere-access platform. … Read More

Modern Requirements4DevOps (aka MR4TFS) uses Microsoft Azure DevOps Server (previously known as Azure DevOps Server) as its database repository and application server, pairing a world-leading ALM solution with a full requirements management suite.
Here at Modern Requirements we have chosen to embed our solutions into Microsoft’s on-premise Azure DevOps (TFS) for … Read More

Here at Modern Requirements we know that our customers want the ability to tackle their requirements management process from any angle.
With Modern Requirements, users can take a Microsoft Word or Visio approach to textual and visual requirements authoring. Experience Smart Docs for translating text-based content directly into Work Items, or … Read More