Requirements Management
High-quality requirements result in the development of products and services that meet customer
expectations.
Requirement - A condition or capability that is required to be present in a product, service, or
result to satisfy a contract or other formally imposed specification.
Industry has generally accepted that a requirements process will encompass the tasks associated
with requirements development and requirements management. To establish a consistent
understanding of the terms, each is defined. Requirements development encompasses the tasks of:
eliciting and identifying requirements, planning, analysis, documenting or specifying
requirements, and validating and verifying requirements.
Requirements management entails managing requirements of the project’s products and product
components and ensuring alignment between those requirements and the project’s plans and work
products. Requirements management therefore encompasses the tasks of: establishing a
requirements baseline, and maintaining traceability, change control, and configuration
management.
Business analysis includes two additional components to requirements development and
requirements management. Those components include needs assessment, which begins pre-
project/program, and solution evaluation, which occurs before and after solution implementation.