Tool Mentor: Rational Requirements Composer Overview
This tool mentor explains how to use IBM Rational(R) Requirements Composer(R) to collaborate in context to drive clarity and consensus on evolving Business Objectives
Tool: Rational Requirements Composer
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Main Description

This tool mentor provides information on how to use IBM Rational® Requirements Composer® to gain control of evolving business objectives and drive clarity, context and consensus across the software delivery lifecycle

This collaborative toolset provides the ability to visually capture requirements information as process sketches, storyboards, user-interface sketches, and rich text to better articulate and communicate the context of your requirements. Requirements context is further enhanced through shared glossaries, comment threads, and rich-text editors that facilitate collaboration and communication so teams anywhere in the world can provide inputs, get clarity, and achieve consensus quickly around developing business-driven architectures, code, test plans, and ultimately solutions.

Product Benefits

  • Reduces risks across the IT lifecycle by eliciting and interconnecting ideas to clarify actual business issues and enable more effective solutions supported by better architecture, quality, and release management processes.
  • Drive faster project delivery by providing the history and context that team members need to reduce rework, reduces meetings focused on understanding requirements, and allowing teams to reuse requirements artifacts for future projects.
  • Iterate quickly with stakeholders using simplified palettes to create business process sketches, UI sketches and storyboards, use cases, and dynamic glossaries that help remove confusion and build consensus around requirements.
  • Integrates with Rational RequisitePro 7.1 to enhance requirements management capabilities for greater traceability and alignment to business objectives across the lifecycle. (Also available as Open Beta through the link below).


Tool How-to

The IBM Rational® Requirements Composer® Help provides the most comprehensive instruction on how to actually use the tool.


Tool Practice mapping



Business Analysis Skill
IIBA knowledge area
Our Practices
Our Tools supporting the practice 
Organize, Analyse, elaborate on requirements and document
Requirements Analysis and documentation
Business Process Sketching
Use-Case Driven Development
Information captured in Rich text documents or using storyboarding, ui sketching, fisrt cut use cases will be categorized into structured set of requirements (NFR, FR , BR). UC wil be further elaborated, structured and and detailed
Verify Requirements
Requirements Analysis and documentation
Business Process Sketching
Use-Case Driven Development : Determine that the requirements are correctly and completely defined.
Verify specified requirements  with Linkability, navigability features
Validate Requirements  
Requirements Analysis and documentation
Business process Sketching
Use-Case Driven Development
Validate that a requirement will satisfy a business need
Traceability, Linkability
Commenting on any requirement/artifact
Collaborative environment


Organize, Analyse, elaborate on requirements and document
Requirements Analysis and documentation
Business Process Sketching
Use-Case Driven Development
Information captured in Rich text documents or using storyboarding, ui sketching, fisrt cut use cases will be categorized into structured set of requirements (NFR, FR , BR). UC wil be further elaborated, structured and and detailed
Verify Requirements
Requirements Analysis and documentation
Business Process Sketching
Use-Case Driven Development : Determine that the requirements are correctly and completely defined.
Verify specified requirements with linkability, navigatibility features 
Validate Requirements  
Requirements Analysis and documentation
Business process Sketching
Use-Case Driven Developement
Validate that a requirement will satisfy a business need
Traceability, Linkability
Commenting on any requirement/artifact
Collaborative environment



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