Requirements Efficiency: Challenges and Best Practices
INCOSE Enchantment Chapter Meeting June 13, 2018
Presented by: Cheryl Bolstad, Sandia National Laboratories, Human Factors
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Abstract: As requirements engineering and management processes (REMP) for complex hardware systems continue to mature, a major goal is to reduce the long timelines for generating and distributing requirements to system and component engineers. This literature review draws from external sources, such as peer-reviewed journal and conference proceedings, to reveal inefficiencies, challenges and problems experienced in REMP and seek recommendations and solutions for overcoming them and reducing lengthy REMP timelines while ensuring quality in the process. The purpose is to understand where gains in efficiency might be realized. Best practices and lessons learned for general requirements management and for requirements elicitation, specification, analysis, derivation and decomposition, validation and verification, and change control are reviewed.