Configuration Management Journal - November 2006 - Vol. 5
No. 11
Requirements Management
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- In This Issue
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- Requirements and Analysis - or - The Other Pipe Dream!
by Ben Weatherall
- Configuration Management and Simplicity - The Five
"T" Approach to Keeping it Simple
Rich Bianchi
- Agile SCM and Requirements
Robert Cowham, Brad Appleton, Steve Berczuk
- Configuration Management in an SOA Environment
Alan Rogers
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- Editors Note
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Requirements management, according to Wikipedia,is the
science and art of gathering and managing user, business,
technical, and functional requirements within a product
development project. Sounds like it should be the first step
for any project, software or otherwise, but in practice
Requirements Management is often viewed as such an
administratively intensive activity it is often often
overlooked or disregarded. So, how do we ensure that
requirements can both be gathered for a project that make
sense and that managing the project according to those
requirements is not overly burdensome to the developers.
This month, the CM Journal writers focus on a few solutions
to that question and we would also like to hear from you.
Add your comments in the Requirements management Forum at CM
Crossroads, How do you manage requirements?
As always, I look forward to your input and comments. Thank
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Requirements and Analysis - or - The Other Pipe Dream!
by Ben Weatherall
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In a thread in the Requirements Management forum ("do
you prefer Word interface or separate application?") I
responded with my definition of Requirements Engineering. My
basic thoughts have not changed much, but I wanted to extend
them somewhat and show more of CM's involvement in the
Requirements process.
I have been involved in the software industry, formally and
informally, for over three decades. In that time I have had
to do Requirements Elicitation, Requirements Capture,
Requirements Analysis, Requirements Normalization,
Requirements Traceability, and Requirements Management. I
have used ASCII documents, Word documents, Third-party
hardcopy documents, Databases of one flavor or another, and
various proprietary tools. Here is my take on all of this...
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Configuration Management and Simplicity - The Five
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by Rich Bianchi
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Let's face it, software configuration management can be
downright overwhelming, and its complexity can challenge the
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When The Standish Group conducted research to analyze the
successes and failures of software projects, they found that
8 out of 10 projects are unsuccessful. Furthermore, nearly
a third of all projects are so poorly executed, they are
nixed before they are finished. The Standish Group research
pointed out in its top ten attributes of software success
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Agile SCM: Agile SCM and Requirements
Robert Cowham, Brad Appleton, Steve Berczuk
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At the start of our last article on the applicability of
some principles of martial arts we talked about the
importance of requirements when deciding on a martial art,
so it seems fitting this month to look at the implications
of requirements for agile SCM.
The process of eliciting requirements (the phrase
"requirements gathering" rather brings to mind
wandering around an alpine meadow with a basket under your
arm plucking one juicy requirement after another while
singing along with Julie Andrews!) is a specialist area with
many of its own techniques and practices. This month's
article builds on our June 2005 column: Requirements Based
Development- Yes Please! (But How?!) which mentions
evolutionary delivery, lean principles and also covers some
issues for requirements management tools.
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Configuration Management in an SOA Environment
Alan Rogers
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I am the Programme Configuration Manager for the SOA
programme for a large UK financial company, which have
adopted an SOA approach for creating new services to replace
existing applications.
Part of the problem which I have found when first trying to
come up which a Configuration Management strategy, is that
normally you can go to the internet and there are lots of
articles on a subject in a particular area. However, what I
found was that there is very little and what there is, is
mostly theoretical even from well established names.
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Building Requirements Quality thru Coverage and Testability
Mario Moreira
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As we look to deploy or improve a requirements practice, the
output should lead to a set of complete and quality
requirements. A way to get there is to ensure that
requirements have been captured in all pertinent categories
and are testable.
Often times, requirements are gathered that focus on user
needs and limited functional areas. But what may be
overlooked are lesser requirements categories (e.g.,
security, usability, etc). It is therefore essential to
capture requirements that ensure coverage in the
requirements space. Once requirements cover all pertinent
areas, it is critical to ensure that the requirements are
testable. Testability implies that the requirements are
understood enough that a test case can be established and
then run to prove that a requirement has or has not been
met. Having a requirement written at this level ensures
that developers can build something that aligns with the
requirement, reducing the gap of what the requirement
specifies versus what gets built.
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