1.4.4 Measurably Improving Your Systems Engineering Requirements
Timothy G. Olson · INCOSE International Symposium · 2007
Abstract Requirements continue to be a major problem area for most organizations. According to industry reports, the leading causes of quality, cost, and schedule problems are lack of understanding of the customer's needs, incomplete requirement specifications, and managing changing requirements. So what can an organization focus on now to improve their systems engineering requirements? This paper will describe some practical strategies that organizations can use to measurably improve their requirements as well as their requirements process. The objectives of this paper are to: Present some requirements problems from industry. Present a useful classification of requirements problems from the literature. Provide specific strategies to address the requirements problems from the literature. Describe some practical strategies that organizations can use to measurably improve their requirements. Provide some requirements lessons learned and provide some industry references.