Requirements Management

Requirements management involves communication between the project team members and stakeholders, and adjustment to requirements changes throughout the course of the project. To prevent one class of requirements from overriding another, constant communication among members of the development team is critical. For example, in software development for internal applications, the business has such strong needs that it may ignore user requirements, or believe that in creating use cases, the user requirements are being taken care of. The purpose of requirements management is to assure the organization documents, verifies and meets the needs and expectations of its customers and internal or external stakeholders.

Requirements traceability is concerned with documenting the life of a requirement. It should be possible to trace back to the origin of each requirement and every change made to the requirement should therefore be documented in order to achieve traceability. Even the use of the requirement after the implemented features have been deployed and used should be traceable.

The purpose of the Requirements Traceability Matrix is to help ensure the object of the requirements conforms to the requirements by associating each requirement with the object via the traceability matrix.
A traceability matrix is used to verify that all stated and derived requirements are allocated to system components and other deliverables.

- Features Traceability Table : It shows how requirements relate to important customer observable system/product features.
- Source Traceability Table : It identifies the source of each requirement.
- Dependency Traceability Table : It indicates how requirements are related to one another.
- Subsystem Traceability Table : it categorizes requirements by the subsystem that they govern.
- Interface Traceability Table : It shows how requirements relate to both internal and external system interfaces.