
176 Requirements Engineering for Software and Systems
an important role, though there are not many appropriate tools for this purpose.
Appropriate software tools must support
Informal collaboration ◾
Change management ◾
Promote awareness (e.g., auto-email stakeholders when triggers occur) ◾
Manage knowledge—provide a framework for saving and associating unstruc- ◾
tured project information
ere are several commercial and even open source solutions that claim to pro-
vide these features, but we leave the product research of these to the reader.
Antipatterns in Requirements Management*
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