That's what dreams are made of

Chris Matts and Andy Pols are working on a prototype for the Dream Factory which is a little bit
of a lot of things, including a tool for coordinating communities, managing IT investment portfolios and projects, and managing the requirements for a development project.

Chris explained the concept of the Dream Factory to me at Agile 2006. The idea is based partly on the the concept of the Wisdom of Crowds, where the votes of multiple users/stakeholders is used as a mechanism to determine which features are realized. This seems to me to be a good way of prioritizing requirements for projects where there are several customers. It also provides a nice example of how a wiki or blog can be used to gather and document requirements.

If you like the idea, Chris and Andy request that you join the Dream Factory to help them develop it together. The registration process is real easy, and Chris and Andy welcome any input.