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Requirements Management Process

The requirements management process for a specific project is defined by:

- team organization
- requirements document structure with traceability and V&V layers
- links into respective vendor documentation
- defined requirements attribute use
- change control process and deliverables
- tool use

The requirements management process should integrate the usability engineering process as needed (IEC 62366).

Traceability should be established based on a document layer structure e.g. according to a V-model.



Comprehensive templates should be used in all cases/ on all levels to avoid requirements gaps. Quality of requirements should be verified.


All requirements documents should be part of the traceability concept according to a V-model with horizontal and vertical tracing.





Product risks and their mitigation should be integrated within the requirements management process, especially when using a tool, then risks become individual database entries with linked risk mitigation (safety requirements).




The use of a requirements management tool is recommended from a certain complexity level on. This enables the team to create real-time traceability within the projects.
Snapshots can be created for certain development stages, product configurations, product versions or country specific design histories.



Traceability can be established for international teams e.g. also having their owned requirements artifacts in databases on-site.



Requirements artifacts are available as document deliverables and also stored with their individual requirements/ attributes as part of a database.