We were asked by one of our clients the following question via our Ask the Experts page: “Can a child requirement have more than one parent requirement?” More recently we received a similar question: “At our company, we take stakeholder … Read More
Blog
Archive for 2012
Importance of Doing the Upfront Work Before Design
We were recently asked by one of our clients about some methods that can be used to help drive home the importance of developing proper requirements at the right time…namely at the beginning of the project. Convincing those with whom … Read More
Use of Passive Voice When Writing Requirements
We were recently asked the following question from one of our clients concerning the use of passive vs active voice when writing requirements: “Is passive voice not allowed to state a requirement? Our engineers usually use passive voice to write … Read More
Managing Traceability Links When Requirements are Deleted
We were recently asked the following question from one of our clients concerning managing traceability and allocation links: “When you delete a requirement should you break the link so that it doesn’t continue to show up in Traceability Reports?” I … Read More
Allocation and Traceability
We were recently asked the following question from one of our clients concerning the decomposition of requirements: “Do Requirements Traceability Matrices always trace down? One of the concepts we try to ensure is parent requirements at lower levels of design. … Read More