Requirements management

Requirements management is the process of eliciting, documenting, analyzing, prioritizing and agreeing on requirements and then controlling change and communicating to relevant stakeholders. It is a continuous process throughout a project. A requirement is a capability to which a project outcome should conform.

The purpose of requirements management is to assure the organization meets the expectations of its customers and internal or external stakeholders. Requirements management includes objectives and constraints of the company external forces at work affect the project in mid-cycle. 

Requirements management further includes supporting planning for requirements, integrating requirements and the organization for working with them attributes for requirements, as well as relationships with other information delivering against requirements, and changes for these. 

The trace abilities thus established are used in managing requirements to report back fulfillment of company and stakeholder interests, in terms of coverage and consistency. Traceability’s also support change management as part of requirements management in understanding relations to functional architecture introducing these changes.