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Meeting
Updated 9 Feb 2000
C-SPIN / Meetings and Events / Previous
Meeting
Updated 9 Feb 2000
Thinking Outside the Requirements Management
"Box"
Thursday, February 3, 2000
Description
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(The slide presentation for this meeting, updated on February 9, 2000, is available in a PowerPoint file. Microsoft Windows PowerPoint viewers are available for download from Microsoft.)Studies have shown that the old methods of requirements management -- capturing and communicating requirements in a document, translating requirements from one source to another and inadequately communicating changes to requirements -- are not effective in today's fast-paced, distributed development environment. Organizations need to re-evaluate their procedures, discard obsolete methods and break out of the self-defeating pattern caused by an imperfect, haphazard and unused requirements management process.
TBI has developed tools and methods to support these activities.
The talk will describe how we can do these things and some of the benefits that accrue from these improvements.
- Treat the requirements specification as a group of integrated, reusable objects instead of a static document. Support the specification with diagrams.
- Capture requirements at their source instead of gathering and translating from one source to another.
- Store requirements and attributes in a central repository where they can be communicated to the entire organization and people can collaborate on refinement.
- Notify all stakeholders when a requirement changes.
Larry Boldt, VP Technology Builders Inc.