Requirements Management (eBook)

The authors 5
Preface and Dedications 7
Table of Contents 8
1 Introduction 12
1.1 Aim of Book 12
1.2 Benefit to be gained from book 12
1.3 Definition of terms 13
1.4 Structure of the Book 15
1.5 How to read this book 18
2 Why Requirements Management and Engineering 21
2.1 General 21
2.2 Advantages of RM& E in project management
2.3 Advantages for finding solutions in design and architecture 26
2.4 Advantages in purchase and supplier management 28
2.5 Advantages in customer service, sales and marketing 28
2.6 Advantages in test and verification management 29
3 Processes and Methods in Requirements Management and Engineering 31
3.1 The roots of Requirements Management and Engineering 31
3.2 Common concepts in Requirements Management and Engineering 39
3.3 Processes and methods in Requirements Management and Engineering 41
3.4 Summary 48
4 Introduction to Requirements Engineering 49
4.1 History of Requirements Engineering 49
4.2 HOOD Requirements Definition Process 52
4.3 Requirements Development and Requirements Engineering 65
4.4 Summary 67
5 Introduction to Requirements Management 69
5.1 What is Requirements Management 69
5.2 Why we need Requirements Management 69
5.3 The benefits of a working Requirements Management 75
5.4 Why some people are against Requirements Management 81
5.5 How resistance can be avoided 83
5.6 After the introduction of Requirement Management 86
5.7 Summary 87
6 Project Management interface 89
6.1 What is Project Management 89
6.2 How Requirements Management can support the writing of proposals 90
6.3 How Requirements Management can support the definition of the project scope 93
6.4 How Requirements Management can support estimating resources and costs 94
6.5 How Requirements Management can support project planning ( scheduling) 95
6.6 How Requirements Management can support project monitoring 98
6.7 How Requirements Management can support quality management 100
6.8 How Requirements Management can support reporting 105
6.9 How Requirements Management can support managing people 106
6.10 Summary 108
7 Configuration Management interface 110
7.1 Of versions, configurations, and releases 111
7.2 Management Disciplines and the German Government V- Modell 116
7.3 Configurations in the Context of Requirements Management 117
7.4 Traceability in Requirement Management and Configuration Management 123
7.5 Tool Use for Version and Configuration Management 124
7.6 Summary 126
8 Metrics and Analysis 129
8.1 Metrics – general 129
8.2 The Importance of Metrics 130
8.3 Attributes of Metrics 131
8.4 Typical Improvement Goals with RM& E
8.5 Example of a Metric 138
8.6 The Evaluation of a Metric by Management 140
8.7 Psychological Aspects of Introducing RM& E Metrics
8.8 Summary 143
9 Risk Management interface 145
9.1 What is a risk 145
9.2 What is Risk Management 146
9.3 Preparing a Risk Management 146
9.4 The Risk Management process 149
9.5 Summary 162
10 Test Management (Validation and Verification) interface 164
10.1 What are Validation and Verification? 164
10.2 The Validation and Verification planning process 165
10.3 The role of Requirements Management in Validation and Verification 167
10.4 Summary 180
11 Change Management interface 182
11.1 General 182
11.2 Basics of Change Management 182
11.3 Factors Influencing Change 183
11.4 Number of Changes during Development 184
11.5 Two Phases of Change Management: Informing and Approval- based 185
11.6 Turning Change Management theory into practice 193
11.7 Procedure for Introducing Structured Change Management 196
11.8 Summary 198
12 Advanced Requirements Management: the complete specification 199
12.1 Interfaces between other Systems Engineering disciplines and Requirements 199
12.2 Getting away from the document view 201
12.3 Implementing Requirements Management 204
12.4 Summary 219
13 The HOOD Capability Models 221
13.1 The meaning of capability models 221
13.2 Why we need capability models 222
13.3 Two example capability models 224
13.4 HOOD Capability Model for Requirements Definition 227
13.5 HOOD Capability Model for Requirements Management 228
13.6 Summary 228
14 The HOOD Capability Model for Requirements Definition 229
14.1 Brief repetition of the HOOD Requirements Definition Process 229
14.2 The idea behind the HOOD capability model for requirements definition 230
14.3 The structure of the HOOD capability model for requirements definition 232
14.4 How to use the HOOD capability model for requirements definition 234
14.5 Summary 248
15 The HOOD Capability Model for Requirements Management 249
15.1 The structure of the HOOD capability model for requirements management 249
15.2 How to use the HOOD capability model for requirements management 250
15.3 Summary 271
List of References 273
Index 278