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RWG sessions at INCOSE IW2018

Posted on: December 27th, 2017 by Lou Wheatcraft No Comments

The RWG has a full agenda planned for IW 2018, Jan 20-23, 2017 in Jacksonville, FL. Our focus will be on the following topics. Welcome new members Provide an overview to the Guide for Writing Requirements for new members and … Read More

Communicating Requirements – Effectively! – Requirement Characteristics

Posted on: November 29th, 2017 by Lou Wheatcraft No Comments

This is part 5 of the blog series “Communicating Requirements – Effectively”. In part 4, I discussed the advantages of text-based requirements vs alternate forms of communicating requirements. In part 5 of this blog series, I conclude the series with … Read More

Communicating Requirements – Effectively! Part 1 – Introduction

Posted on: September 29th, 2017 by Lou Wheatcraft 1 Comment

This is a multiple part blog: This part 1 introduces the overall topic of communicating requirements and addressed communication of requirements from several perspectives: traditional systems engineering, model-based systems engineering, and Agile. In part 2, I address basic definitions of … Read More

Why Do We Need Text-based Requirements?

Posted on: March 15th, 2017 by Lou Wheatcraft No Comments

With increasing frequency, people are coming to us with a common refrain: “Why do we need text-based requirements?  We all know that, more times than not, the stakeholders don’t know what they want, and this lack of clarity leads to … Read More

Requirements – What’s the Big Deal????

Posted on: February 28th, 2017 by Lou Wheatcraft No Comments

Note: this is an update to this blog originally published in 2012. Preparing for the future A constant throughout the evolution of systems engineering is an ever-increasing complexity of systems which can be observed in terms of the number of … Read More