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How to Handle Implementation in Customer Requirements

Posted on: March 15th, 2014 by Lou Wheatcraft 1 Comment

I was asked the following question from a friend of mine: “I see a propensity to copy requirements from the Customer Specification to various levels of the requirement hierarchy in order to link between a Customer requirement written as implementation … Read More

How Well Are Your Requirements Connected?

Posted on: December 31st, 2013 by Lou Wheatcraft No Comments

On our Ask the Experts page , the following question was asked: “I am a systems engineer currently involved in a complex aerospace system development.  While I was searching for some related topics on requirements management, your interesting website was … Read More

Avoiding Implementation

Posted on: March 18th, 2013 by Lou Wheatcraft 5 Comments

We were recently asked the following question: “How do you determine that a requirement is talking about “how” not “what”?  It is always a problem that bothers us during requirement definition.  As requirement engineers, we have less technical knowledge, so … Read More

Do we really need all these requirements?

Posted on: January 25th, 2013 by Lou Wheatcraft No Comments

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

Posted on: December 31st, 2012 by Lou Wheatcraft 1 Comment

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