There’s two parts to staying connected. First, there’s the connectedness of your team, which has been
popularized recently as “collaboration” – new buzzword, same meaning. Analysts, project managers,
developers, testers, product managers, executives, stakeholders and customers - is everyone on the same
page about what you’re building and why?
Second, there’s traceability – the act of connecting up the requirements and other artifacts such as use
cases, test cases, tasks, defects and even user documentation – all the details that are related to each
other within a project. For complex development projects, there can easily be hundreds or thousands
of items involved and it’s critical to establish the traceability relationships between these items – both
upstream and downstream