Benefits of an RTM

Some of the benefits of an effective, well-designed, and well-managed traceability matrix include helping us identify missed test coverage and hence potential issues that can be addressed prior to releasing the solution to the end user. Here’s a detailed list:

• Traceability to the best possible extent to ensure all important requirements are not missed after production deployment.
• Traceability helps the team with auditing from requirements to the final solution and ensures transparency.
• An RTM is a very helpful artifact to meet compliance needs, especially with financial, healthcare, and other industries.
• Establishes trust with stakeholders, SMEs, and other team members as we will be able to prove our traceability, that the project work progressed as planned, and correct products were delivered.
• In case of change requests that crop up during various phases in projects, this helps the project team and CAB approvers evaluate the impact...