In the first quote, Interviewee 1, a software architect, explains
how she/he passes information to the requirements team. She/he
speaks in the same quote both about tools and documentations,
already indicating the relation among the categories. In this interviewee’s
opinion, it is more important to transfer information in a
standardized way to the development team, than for this information
to arrive standardized to him/her, especially concerning
requirements. If the information transfer to the development team
happens in a standardized way, this facilitates this team’s
understanding of the information and eliminates some of the
‘‘burden’’ of the architect, who has to explain in details what the
requirements mean. To address this issue, his/her team created a
template for the requirements and used a tool to manage them
in his/her current project.