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Leveling Requirements

Posted on: September 15th, 2017 by Lou Wheatcraft 2 Comments

I was recently asked the question. “Suboptimal leveling of requirements seems to be a recurring issue for the projects in my business group (we’ve even seen low-level mechanical dimensions specified in the system requirements). We’ve been reading through the INCOSE … 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

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

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