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As BAs, one of our primary goals is to improve the productivity and effectiveness of the businesses we work in, yet many of us are using tools that are detrimental to our productivity and restrict our ability for effective information management, communication and stakeholder engagement.  This exacerbates communication problems and introduces significant risks into project delivery that contributes to the dire IT software project failure rates.

Typically we spend too much time on administration, rather than doing analysis.

For many organisations the challenge of accurately capturing and communicating business objectives and translating these into layered business requirements is still the most significant obstacle to project success.  While most recognise the need for effective requirements management, communication, versioning and traceability, the adoption rates of requirements management tools remains comparatively low, why?