Generating requirements documentation

If you're creating a project from scratch, it can be hard to generate documentation out of thin air. However, sometimes it's possible to generate documentation if you have nothing but the requirements in an appropriate tool. If you're using JIRA, for instance, a starting point would be to just export all items from an issue navigator view. You can use whatever filter you like and get printouts just for those items. If you don't like the default set of fields or just feel this is not what you're looking for, you can try out one of JIRA's plugins for requirements management. They allow a whole lot more than to just export requirements; for example, R4J (Requirements for Jira) allows you to create whole hierarchies of requirements, trace them, manage changes and propagate them through your whole project, perform impact analyses of any requirements changes, and, of course, export using user-defined templates. Many such tools...