What are the key Requirements Management principles ?
The key Requirements Management principles that underpin the ‘Smart Requirements’ approach are to: • Set requirements in the operating context. • Engage key stakeholders early. • Focus on acquisition of operational capability not equipment. • Identify and address interoperability early. • Separate Customer, Supplier and User roles clearly. • Discriminate clearly between operational need and solution. • Define explicit, quantified and testable requirements. • Help to identify, analyse and down-select options objectively. • Capture the through life perspective across all Defence Lines of Development. • Control change. • Assess achievability. • Help to manage risk and uncertainty. • Trade across performance, cost and time. • Provide traceability throughout the key products. • Support key decisions. • Adapt or scale to suit.
