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Controlling and Managing Change

Posted on: April 2nd, 2013 by Lou Wheatcraft 2 Comments

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

Why Do My Requirements Keep Changing?

Posted on: March 26th, 2013 by Lou Wheatcraft 7 Comments

This is a very common question. There are various reasons.  Some we have control over and some we don’t.  A key point is that we want to avoid changes that are a result of having poorly defined requirements. In this … Read More

Managing Traceability Links When Requirements are Deleted

Posted on: November 13th, 2012 by Lou Wheatcraft No Comments

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

Posted on: November 13th, 2012 by Lou Wheatcraft No Comments

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

Why You Should Prioritize Requirements

Posted on: August 15th, 2012 by Lou Wheatcraft No Comments

Prioritizing Requirements – Everybody does it but often too late. We always prioritize when we are getting close to the delivery and find not everything works or when someone appears with a “more critical than anything else” requirement in the … Read More