The Statement of Requirements (SOR) drives all project activities………
…and dictates the content of all technical documents, such as the system
design, build specification, test specification and support plan. Project managers rightly apply engineering disciplines (design
engineering, production engineering, test engineering and logistics
engineering) to assure themselves
of the quality of the associated
technical documents, yet the need to apply an equally rigorous discipline (RE) in order to ensure a similar and
measurable level of quality in
the source of all technical
documents – the SOR – is
regularly ignored.
Requirements Engineering belongs to a trinity
of requirements handling capabilities:
- Requirements Capture extracts and records raw requirements
information from documents or from the minds of
subject matter experts.
- Requirements
Engineering translates raw requirements
information into a metricated complete, correct, coherent and consistent
Statement Of Requirements (SOR) of measurable quality.
- Requirements
Management provides traceability and
change management facilities for the SOR throughout the project life-cycle.
The G-MARC methodology ensures the application of a logical combination of Requirements Capture, Engineering and Management to significantly reduce risk throughout the project life-cycle.
Applying only
conventional Requirements Management techniques to a SOR of unknown quality
results in a significant and unquantified risk to the ability to bring the
project to a successful conclusion.
CSA’s consultancy activities, are devoted to the elimination of such
risk.
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