Elicitation phase

During the requirements elicitation phase there is typically a need for communication and collaboration, and for tracking the results of these, to finally come up with defined requirements. The following features can be used during the elicitation phase while you are still gathering input to process into actual requirements:

• Documents — Create Documents in the portal, or import Microsoft Word documents. All stakeholders with access to your project can access Documents and collaborate on the content, with changes showing up in real time. For information, see Documents and Pages, and the topic on importing from Microsoft Word.

• Word Round-trip — If you have stakeholders who do not have access to Documents on your Polarion portal, you can use the Word Round-trip feature to share Documents with them. They can comment and/or modify content, depending on the permissions granted when exporting. Changes can then be merged into the source Document in Polarion.

• Pages — You may find Info type Pages useful for collecting and collaboration on information and content that will eventually become requirements that you copy to LiveDoc Documents, or that you create in the integrated tracker. For more information, see Working With Pages.