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It gives me an insight into how it must have felt being proud spear wielding warriors seeing "Gatling" stenciled on the side of a large wooden box.
My theory of software development process is that tools are the dominant shaping force.
Waterfall was a fit for the word processing era. Build a big document, hand it off. Changing the document is a pain, so write it once in advance. And so on.
The advent of bug tracking tools showed how individual work packets could be packaged, sliced and dealt with individually.
Similarly, this tool revisits the ideas of traceability (previously achieved with spreadsheets, basically) and change matrices / change ripples. Because it's automated, it actually becomes part of the process, rather than an impossible burden.