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
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Controlling and Managing Change
Controlling and managing change is one of the most important tasks for both the Project Manager and Systems Engineer. Failing to do so often results in massive cost overruns, schedule slips, and failed projects. In the previous blog “Why do … Read More
Is the Requirement Verifiable?
This is another common question. It is also a major complaint of both developers and testers. Developers often receive requirements from their customers that are not verifiable. How many times do we see requirements like the following: “The system shall … Read More
Do we really need all these requirements?
We are often asked this question. It is common to see cases where projects over specify their requirements for a product. In one of our classes, we were told that one government organization had defined over 4,000 requirements for a … Read More
Traceability – Multiple Parent Requirements – Update
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
