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Requirements that keep up with the software inside your machines.

Author requirements, trace them to every test, and bring years of existing documents forward as clean, testable requirements, inside the Azure DevOps you already have.

● ● ●   Smart Docs · Beacon control unit ◇ Azure DevOps
REQ-1042Amber beacon activates within 200 ms of hazard signal on the CAN bus.
REQ-1043Flash cadence is configurable per machine variant.
REQ-1044Fault state disables output and raises a diagnostic code.
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See Modern Requirements in action.

A short overview of authoring, traceability, and review — all inside the Azure DevOps you already run.

Modern Requirements · Product overview 3 min
What it does for your team

One platform for the whole requirements lifecycle.

From the first draft to the traced, tested, signed-off requirement, in the environment your code already lives in.

Living requirements

Author living requirements inside Azure DevOps.

Structured documents that stay current.

Write and structure requirements in rich, template-driven documents that live in your project. The whole team works from one always-current source: connected, versioned, and easy to navigate, however large the system gets.

◇ Smart Docs · Machine function library ◇ ADO
FUNC Amber beacon control
REQ-1042 Activation ≤ 200 ms of hazard signal
REQ-1043 Cadence configurable per variant
FUNC Operator display (HMI)
REQ-2210 Warning icon within 1 frame
REQ-2211 Dim on ignition-off
AI-assisted authoring

Bring years of existing requirements forward, in minutes.

Point the AI at what you already have.

Feed in the documents you already own, from Word and PDF to markdown and spec sheets, and the AI turns prose into clean, individual, testable requirements. Work that used to take an engineer most of a day per feature takes minutes, with a person reviewing every result before it lands.

✦ AI is optional and safe. It never trains on your data.
◇ Modern Requirements · Elicit ◇ ADO
Source paragraph (imported .md): "The beacon shall flash and the system logs a fault and it dims at night…" Generated, testable → REQ-1043 Flash cadence configurable per variant REQ-1044 Fault state raises diagnostic code REQ-1045 Night mode reduces intensity by 40%
Impact analysis

Change one thing. See everything it affects, at once.

One click, one impact report.

A single change can ripple through dozens of requirements and tests. One action surfaces every affected requirement and test case and produces a shareable impact report, replacing the hours, sometimes days, of manual checking a change review takes today.

◇ Impact of change · REQ-1042 ◇ ADO
REQ-1043 Flash cadenceImpacted
TC-5510 Cadence testRetest
REQ-1044 Fault handlingReview
REQ-2210 HMI warningNo change
Traceability & coverage

From requirement to test, traced and always current.

Your code already lives here. Now your requirements do too.

Your code already lives in Azure DevOps Git. Modern Requirements puts your requirements right beside it in the same platform, traced to the tests that verify them. The matrix keeps itself up to date as requirements and tests change, so you can spot coverage gaps at a glance and keep coverage current as the project moves.

◇ Lives in the same Azure DevOps as your Git repos, no new home for your code
◇ requirement → test
TC-5510TC-5511
REQ-1042
REQ-1043 gap

Each requirement traced to its test cases

Validation & test cases

Turn requirements into ready-to-run test cases.

Generate test cases straight from requirements.

Your validation team can generate test cases directly from requirements, with actions and expected results included. Every test traces to the requirement it verifies, so coverage is something you can see at a glance instead of tracking by hand.

◇ Test cases from REQ-1042 ◇ ADO Test Plans
TC-5510 Beacon on within 200 ms · pass
TC-5511 Cadence matches variant · pass
TC-5512 Fault disables output · needs run

Generated · each traced to its requirement

Reuse & variants

Build a function once. Reuse it across machine variants.

Consistency without copy-paste.

Capture the functions you use again and again as reusable requirement sets, and manage how each product variant diverges through versioned packages. Every build stays consistent, and each change is deliberate and versioned, with no copy-paste that quietly drifts out of sync.

◇ Version packages · machine variants ◇ ADO
LIB Beacon control  v3 · in 5 machines
PKG Compact loader · v3
PKG Excavator · v3 + variant Δ
LIB Operator display (HMI)  v2 · in 3 machines
Review & sign-off

Review, approve, and have the record to show for it.

Turn informal checks into a clear trail.

Send requirements for structured review and formal sign-off, with every comment, approval, and change time-stamped into an audit-ready record. Capture a versioned baseline at each milestone, so you can always see exactly what was agreed, and when, with electronic signatures whenever you need them.

◇ Review · Beacon CU baseline ◇ ADO
SE
System engineer approved
2 requirements · 14:02
✓ signed
QA
Validation approved
tied to baseline v3 · 14:19
✓ signed
CB
Change board approved
baseline captured · 15:40
✓ signed
Secure by design

It runs inside your world, not somewhere else.

The security you already trust, extended.

Everything works as an extension of the Azure DevOps you already run. Your data stays in your own Microsoft tenant, protected by the single sign-on and security you use today. AI requests run within Microsoft's Azure security boundary, never used to train models, and a person approves every result.

Your tenant data never leaves SSO your existing identity AI no training · human-approved Cloud or on-prem deployment your choice
◇ Where your data lives ◇ Microsoft tenant
Your tenant Azure DevOps Modern Requirements

One boundary. SSO in, nothing out. Deploy cloud or on-prem.

Requirements exchange

Bring requirements in from anywhere. Keep them in sync.

Modern Requirements doesn't lock your work in. Pull requirements in from the documents and tools you already use, and keep them synced both ways with Jira, all landing as clean, testable requirements in Azure DevOps.

Import →

Word & document import

Bring in requirements from Word, Excel and PDF. Existing specs arrive with their structure intact, ready to become living requirements.

⇄ Two-way

Jira Sync Bridge

Sync requirements and work items both ways between Modern Requirements and Jira. Both tools stay aligned, with no manual re-entry.

Generate →

AI authoring

Turn prose and existing documents into clean, individual, testable requirements, minutes not days, with a person reviewing every result.

One requirements repository, native to Azure DevOps. Every source lands here as a clean, connected requirement.

◇ Azure DevOps · your Microsoft tenant
Easy to implement

Up and running fast. Value from day one.

Modern Requirements installs into Azure DevOps as an extension, so there's no new platform to stand up. Engineers author, trace, and validate requirements next to their work items and Git repos, keeping specs, code, and tests connected in one place they already work.

A single tab inside the Azure DevOps you already run, so your team works in the environment they already know.
Authorrequirements as living documents
Traceevery requirement to its tests
Reviewapprove and baseline with sign-off
Versionreuse across machine variants
Proof

Built to be trusted by teams building complex machines and software.

Microsoft's requirements-management partner

Built into Azure DevOps for nearly two decades.

Rated highly by engineering teams

Consistently well reviewed in independent requirements-software reviews.

Runs in your own tenant

Deployed inside your Microsoft environment, with your existing sign-on and security. Your data stays with you.

Trusted by teams building complex machines and software

Zions Bank
SSE
Novo Nordisk
Lear
APS

Requirements, tests, and sign-off in one place.

Modern Requirements keeps authoring, traceability, review, and reuse together inside the Azure DevOps you already run, so your requirements stay current, connected, and audit-ready as the work moves.

  • See it running on your own data in a short working session.
  • No new platform to stand up — it installs into your Azure DevOps.
  • Your data stays in your own Microsoft tenant.
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