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Value Engineering
of Requirements
What, Why, When, and How of Value Engineering?
What Is Value Engineering?
Up until this point we have had very little discussion of the costs of certain fea-
tures that customers may wish to include in the system requirements. Part of the
reason is that it made sense to separate that very complex issue from all of the other
problems surrounding requirements elicitation, analysis, representation, validation,
verification, and so on. Another reason for avoiding the issue is that it is a tricky
one.
ere is a fundamental relationship between time, cost, and functionality.
Project managers someti ...