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When Should You Start Managing Requirements?

Posted on: September 27th, 2013 by Lou Wheatcraft No Comments

I recently saw the following question posed in a discussion group: “When should the formal management of requirements begin?” My take is this – I look at Requirements Management (RM) as having three main functions: 1) Requirement elicitation and development; … Read More

User vs. Product Requirements

Posted on: September 15th, 2013 by Lou Wheatcraft No Comments

“What is the difference between user requirements and product requirements?” The short answer is that user “requirements” often address only what the users expect they will be able to do with the system or their expectations for the functionality, performance, … Read More

Going from system concepts to requirements – Part 1

Posted on: July 17th, 2013 by Lou Wheatcraft No Comments

Note: This is Part 1 of our discussion concerning going from system concepts to requirements.  Part 1 addresses the basic concepts; Going from system concepts to requirements – Part 2 delves more into the “How” to go from system concepts … Read More

Going from system concepts to requirements – Part 2

Posted on: July 17th, 2013 by Lou Wheatcraft No Comments

Note: This is part 2 on our discussion concerning going from system concepts to requirements.  Going from system concepts to requirements Part 1 addresses the basic concepts.  Part 2 goes more into the “How” to go from the Column A … Read More

ConOps vs OpsCon – What’s the Difference?

Posted on: June 25th, 2013 by Lou Wheatcraft 5 Comments

We hear this question over and over again.  This topic comes up a lot in our classes where, as part of scope definition, we stress the need to develop and have at least one feasible system concept prior to writing … Read More