Requirements / Feature Request Tracker

The problem this kills

Requirements live everywhere - a kickoff doc, three Slack threads, a stakeholder's email, two competing spreadsheets, and someone's memory. By the time you ship, nobody can answer the only question that matters in a review: "Show me the request this feature came from, who asked for it, and prove we actually delivered it."

So you get scope creep nobody approved, "we never agreed to that" arguments, and orphan requirements that quietly fall through the cracks. The audit asks for traceability and you spend a weekend reverse-engineering it from chat logs.

This tool gives you one place where every requirement has a requester, a priority, a rationale, and a status - and a hard line of sight from each request to the deliverable or release that satisfied it. Nothing changes status and nothing gets linked to a deliverable until a business analyst or product owner reviews and approves it.

What you'll build

A small, private web app your team logs into. You import (or capture) requirements and deliverables, link them together, and see a live traceability matrix from request to delivery.

• Capture a requirement with requester, priority, rationale, and status.
• Link each requirement to the deliverable or release that satisfies it - supporting many-to-one, so several requirements can roll up to one deliverable.
• A traceability view that walks from request to delivery and back, and flags orphan requirements with no delivery attached.
• A BA/PO approval gate: status changes and deliverable links are drafted, then a reviewer approves before they commit.
• Duplicate guards that catch the same ask twice, by requirement ID and by normalized title.
• A clean CSV export of the full traceability matrix in the exact columns your tooling expects.

What's inside the Implementation Plan

The plan is a single markdown file you paste into Claude Code. It builds the whole tool with you, step by step, each step ending in a ready-to-copy prompt.

It opens by interviewing you about your business - your current requirements process, the systems and sheets you use (Jira, Azure DevOps, Aha!, a spreadsheet), how you name requirement IDs, what "priority" and "status" actually mean in your world, your real approval rules, and your messy edge cases. It reflects a short tailored spec back to you for a thumbs-up before it builds anything, so the tracker fits how you really work instead of being a generic template.

From there it sets up the database, login, the capture and linking screens, the traceability matrix with orphan-flagging, the approval gate, the email notifications, and the CSV export - plus a no-API fallback so you can build the whole thing today from sheets alone.

The governance it includes (this is the point)

• Login so only your team can see or touch the tracker.
• Row-level security so people only ever see their own organization's data.
• A full audit trail - who captured, edited, linked, or approved what, and exactly when.
• A human-in-the-loop approval gate - the tool drafts status changes and deliverable links; a BA/PO reviews and approves before anything is committed to the tracker of record.
• Duplicate guards so the same requirement can't sneak in twice under a different title.

Who it's for

Business analysts, product owners, project and program managers, and the stakeholders who keep asking "did we actually build what we agreed to?" If you own scope, change, or a backlog and you need to prove traceability without living in spreadsheets, this is for you.

You've got this - paste the first prompt and let the agent interview you.