Release Planning

Ability to assign features to a planned or desired release and track details about the release.

ALM Integration

Integrate artifacts across ALM phases such as requirements, analysis, design, development, and testing, either internally or through an API.

Backlog Management

The product owner adds, adjusts, refines, and prioritizes backlog items within the backlog to make sure the most valuable product is delivered to users.

Social Collaboration

Connects users via social media features such as instant messaging, chats, or comments.

Product Management

Includes product code, category, and description.

Visual Roadmap

Ability to manage and display features and/or backlog items into a visual timeline of releases or time periods.

Feature Management

Ability to define distinct features, properties, supporting data and manage the prioritization and implementation status.

Workflow Management

Includes ability to support flexible and comprehensive workflow-based capabilities.

Idea Management

Ability to collect, manage, and define ideas prior to inclusion in the backlog.

User Needs Management

Ability to collect, define, and manage user needs and trace them to features or other work items.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

Breadth of Features

Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Ease of IT Administration

This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Ease of Customization

Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

Business Value Created

Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Ease of Data Integration

Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

Quality of Features

Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Availability and Quality of Training

Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

Ease of Implementation

Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Usability and Intuitiveness

End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

Vendor Support

The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.