Chapter 7

Requirements Management

The previous chapters described eighteen practices that lay the foundation for a successful project and help you develop a set of high-quality solution requirements. Once you have those fine requirements in hand, now what happens to them? Requirements management is the subdomain of requirements engineering that deals with how requirements are used on the project and how the project responds to evolving needs.

In an ideal world, the development team would take the set of requirements developed for some portion of the product, implement them into a solution, and then move directly on to the requirements for the next portion. In the real world, requirements are dynamic. Understanding deepens and changes, markets ...

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