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Frontend Tutorial
This is a short tutorial on how to use the main Requirements Bazaar frontend available on https://requirements-bazaar.org/.
Requirements Bazaar is an tool for online, Web-based continuous open innovation. It brings together diverse stakeholders interested in creating and improving an innovative idea or even product. All content on Requirements Bazaar is public currently.
In the following, you find a short description of the main functionalities of the site. Please note, that this is just a suggestion on how to use the tool. We do not impose any standards on you - you are totally free in how you organize your community's ideas! Rather, we want to learn from your patterns to improve the platform over time.
Requirements Bazaar is organized into projects, _categories _and requirements. Projects combine together all aspects and pieces of a product. To get a list of all projects in Requirements Bazaar, go to https://requirements-bazaar.org/projects. It will show you a searchable list of all projects and their descriptions. You can use the Sorting field on the left above the list to sort according to the alphabet, popularity, last activity (on project level) or to the number of requirements. On the right, you find the activity tracker which is a top-to-bottom list of what's happening in Requirements Bazaar currently.
After selecting a project, you see the project's frontpage. As an example, let's look at the Requirements Bazaar's own project page: https://requirements-bazaar.org/projects/2. It contains a list of all categories available under the Requirements Bazaar's project. Categories are totally up to the specific project you selected. It is rather unlikely that any two projects have the same list of categories. In the case of this example, you will find rather technical categories like "ReqBaz Frontend" or "WordPress Integration", but also other category types like "Target Communities" where we discuss possible applications of the Requirements Bazaar in other contexts outside of software development.
Once you select a category, you get to see the requirements list. This is probably the view that you will be working most with in Requirements Bazaar. It is a list of ideas, requirements, suggestions, bug reports or whatever you think of that improves an existing product or idea. Let's look at the "Target Communities" category of Requirements Bazaar: https://requirements-bazaar.org/projects/2/categories/532. You see various requirements like "Citizen science" or "Clubs and associations". Once you click the title of a requirement, it opens up to reveal attachment images and comments.