Requirements Definition and Management - The Key Process for Successful Projects

Whether you are producing a product, an application, a system, or a service, requirements drive the development process. Industry studies show that poor requirements definition and requirements management practices are the largest contributor to project failures, but that good requirements definition and requirements management practices are a major contributor to project success. The requirements definition and requirements management process isn't just a one-off, upfront step in the project lifecycle. Requirements form the thread that connects all the disciplines of development and quality assurance together around common objectives; furthermore, requirements provide the contract between the customer and the development team. Requirements Lifecycle Management practices, techniques and tools cover the whole requirements process:

  • Requirements elicitation (requirements capture)
  • Requirements definition
  • Requirements validation
  • Requirements analysis
  • Requirements modeling
  • Requirements management
  • Requirements traceability
  • Requirements-based testing

 

Solutions for Requirements Lifecycle Management

IBM provides the market-leading Telelogic® DOORS® product family, a solution designed to help organizations developing advanced systems and software improve their requirements processes from capture, definition and analysis through to management, traceability and validation.

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