Shannon Braun's Weblog

Looks like some of the folks on the Microsoft Patterns & Practices team is looking at what it will take to build a requirements tool.  As far as I can tell they are just playing with a concept application and are looking for feedback.  The tool doesn't look like it is geared to any specific process and is very basic at this point.  I downloaded it and after removing some references that I didn't have on my box ( you will need CAB, Enterprise Library and SQL Compact edition - formally SQL Everywhere) was able to get it to compile and running.  It nothing special at this point.  It handles creating hierarchical requirements and linking.  With the most recent release it also look like they have built a module to sync with Team System.  It also is using has some example code in how they plan on handling the occasionally connected scenario. It's just a POC right now, but if you are interested you can take a look at it here.