Why AppLife DNA
for Software Requirements?

Software projects are naturally iterative. Most industry experts agree on iterative development practices as the best way to create software. AppLife DNA brings iterative practices into the requirement analysis and specification authoring phase. With AppLife DNA, your spec doc becomes a Living Document, where change is not only expected but embraced. Using AppLife DNA, your requirements analysis work will be more efficient, more complete, and more accurate. By focusing your efforts squarely on requirements, you’ll get the right requirements defined quicker and you’ll be able to communicate effectively with team members.

With AppLife DNA you will…

1. Improve team efficiency and confidence by iterative requirements analysis.
   The word Iterative simply means “do a little at a time”. In software analysis, this means organize and plan your requirements over many short duration time periods. Using AppLife DNA, an author can organize all of the known application requirements, assign them to iterations, and then efficiently expand on individual requirements just in time for development. This makes the process lean and reduces wasted effort. When requirements are moved between iterations… no problem! AppLife DNA takes care of ensuring the right iteration content is included.
2. Reduce project risk by authoring each iteration where the previous left off.
   With AppLife DNA, analyzing and defining requirements continues within the same project. With each iteration, you’ll add new content and change existing content as necessary to describe and explain the new iteration features, while maintaining the previous iteration work. You can even author two planned iterations at once and move content between multiple iterations. Having previous work to provide context for new requirements ensures more thorough analysis, and fewer missed details. Your estimates will be more accurate and your project less risky.
3. Increase accuracy by effectively communicating iterative change.
   To iteratively author a specification you must be able to effectively communicate changes to stakeholders. The AppLife DNA Comparison Spec allows you to compare your current work to any past point in time, clearly identifying all changes. The difference between any other document comparison method and an AppLife DNA comparison spec is readablility. The AppLife DNA Comparison Spec is generated and formatted with readability in mind. An AppLife DNA Comparison Spec doesn't just show that differences exist, but rather it provide a distributable document that cleanly marks up the changes, allowing stakeholders to quickly absorb your iterative authoring work. This greatly increases the effectiveness of iterative stakeholder review, ensuring you get the feedback you need to achieve specification accuracy and increases the probability of project success.

Continue on and see how AppLife DNA can improve your requirements analysis efforts.

The AppLife DNA Process