Having expertise with requirements traceability on predictive projects, Aurora, the senior business analyst assigned to the project, advises:

a. The project sponsor should agree to all items on the matrix prior to development.

b. The team should consider using backlog management to manage change requests.

c. The project team should conduct a dependency analysis prior to beginning the development.

d. She has a worksheet from a prior project that was very useful to trace and track requirements.
She suggests trying this tool before creating something from scratch.