🌷OpenRose

  For years, product teams have joked that “nobody reads long requirements documents.” But with the arrival of generative AI in every role — product, engineering, QA, design — the question “Who will read long requirements documents?” has changed completely. Today, the most consistent, reliable, and detail-oriented reader on your team is no longer a person. It’s AI .

  Managing requirements effectively is one of the most important aspects of project success. OpenRose, a free and open-source requirements management tool, makes this process easier by allowing you to export structured data along with traceability matrix  and visualize it using Mermaid diagrams . In this blog, we’ll walk through how to: Export requirements data from OpenRose Convert it into Mermaid flowcharts Include traceability links between requirements Use tools like Mermaid.live  or draw.io  or diagrams.net to create beautiful, shareable diagrams Step 1: Getting Started with OpenRose OpenRose is available at github.com/openrose . For this demo, we’ll use a Charity Fundraising Project as an example. The project contains three main item types: Pre-Fundraising Preparation Fundraising Event Execution Post-Fundraising Activities Each item type contains sub-items, and many of them are interlinked through traceability . For example: ...