What product made today isn't a system? As products get "smarter" and combine hardware and software, building them right becomes a matter of managing complexity. Products have more requirements, and companies have globally distributed teams and more products in their portfolios. When a single product has thousands of requirements and interdependencies, the process of defining, engineering and managing them grows exponentially more complicated. In this infographic, leading technology analysts' crunch the numbers to explain why embedded systems engineers must adopt modern requirements management or get left behind.

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Leading technology analysts crunch the numbers to explain why embedded
systems teams must adopt MRM or get left behind.
Modern Requirements Management (MRM):

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“When companies cite poor communication as the cause of project
failure, 75 percent of the time it’s due to inadequate requirements
management. Result: 47 percent of unsuccessful projects fail to
meet goals due to poor requirements management.”
- PMI, “Pulse of Profession, Requirements Management,
A Core Competency for Project and Program Success” 2014
- VDC Research,
“The Global Market for Requirements
Management/Definition Tools” 2014
- PMI, “Pulse of Profession, Requirements Management,
A Core Competency for Project and Program Success” 2014
- PMI, “Pulse of Profession, Requirements Management,
A Core Competency for Project and Program Success” 2014- PMI, “Pulse of Profession, Requirements Management, A Core Competency for Project and Program Success” 2014

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“Low-performing companies waste almost 10 times more money on
projects and programs due to poor requirements management than
their high-performing counterparts—about 10 percent of every dollar
spent compared to 1 percent.”
- PMI, “Pulse of Profession, Requirements Management,
A Core Competency for Project and Program Success” 2014
- VDC Research, “The Global Market for
Requirements Management/Definition Tools” 2014
- PMI, “Pulse of Profession, Requirements Management,
a Core Competency for Project and Program Success” 2014
- VDC Research,
“The Global Market for Requirements
Management/Definition Tools” 2014
- PMI, “Pulse of Profession, Requirements Management, A Core Competency for Project and Program Success” 2014

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“40-50 percent of companies use general document tools which lead
to poorly managed requirements, thus eliminating and exceeding any
benefit the tools themselves have. Requirements end up captured in
a variety of documents and spreadsheets supplemented by post-it
notes with no traceability or reuse.”
- Gartner, “Market Guide for Software Requirement Definition and Management Solutions” 2014
- Gartner,
“Market Guide for Software Requirement
Definition and Management Solutions” 2014
- VDC Research,
“The Global Market for Requirements Management/Definition Tools” 2014
- SiriusDecisions,
“Product Management Field Guide” 2015

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-VDC Research,
“The Global Market for Requirements Management/Definition Tools” 2014
- Forrester Reports,
"How Can You Scale Your Agile Adoption?" 2014
“Traditional requirements solutions focused on management
functionality have limited adoption for highly complex systems.
New tools and practices emphasizing collaboration and definition
reinvigorate the market along with evolving practices such as Agile.”
- Gartner, “Market Guide for Software Requirements Definition and
Management Solutions” 2014

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In one intuitive platform, Jama provides modern requirements engineering and
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