Requirements Management

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Requirements Management
Contents
Introduction...........................................................................................................................................2
Requirements management plan (RMP)................................................................................................2
Project Overview...............................................................................................................................2
Requirement Gathering......................................................................................................................2
Roles & Responsibilities....................................................................................................................3
Tools..................................................................................................................................................3
Requirements Traceability Matrix.....................................................................................................3
Change Control..................................................................................................................................4
Requirements Documents......................................................................................................................4
Business Requirements for Peters......................................................................................................4
Business Recruitments for Corwins...................................................................................................5
Stakeholder Requirements.................................................................................................................5
Solution Requirements......................................................................................................................6
Project Requirements.........................................................................................................................6
Transition Requirements....................................................................................................................6
Project Scope.........................................................................................................................................7
Scope Statement................................................................................................................................7
WBS..................................................................................................................................................7
WBS Dictionary................................................................................................................................8
Scope Validation.................................................................................................................................13
Conclusions.........................................................................................................................................14
References...........................................................................................................................................15

Requirements Management
Introduction
This report explores the project that has been assigned by Peters company to Corwins for
research, development and testing of its new rubber products. The project would involved 30
tests that would be run. This document contains the detailed plan of how requirements of the
project would gathered and documented using appropriate project management tools. It also
presents a WBS and a dictionary defining its work packages.
Requirements management plan (RMP)
Project Overview
This project has been taken by Corwins from Peters company that needs its Research and
Development operations to be taken by Corwins for a project which would need 30 tests to be
conducted on the special product. The project has been assigned a budget of $231,000 and
has to be completed within 6 months.
Requirement Gathering
The requirements of the project have been gathered by marketing VP, Gene Frenel of Corwin
from one of the key stakeholders of the Peters company named Frank Delia who is the
marketing VP of his company. An initial interview have been conducted and thereafter the
specification sheet had been sent by Peters company to Gene over email with detailed
requirements on five tests to be conducted. For the remaining tests, a mutual agreement
between two companies would be arrived at after discussion (C.R & Thomas, 2011).
The high level requirements of the project were identified by interviewing the major
stakeholders of the Peters company and these included:
 The project would have to research and develop rubber products and conduct tests for
them
 There would be 30 tests to be conducted in 6 months
 The 5 tests have to be run according to the specification sheets provided by the client
 The 25 tests would be mutually decided between Peters and Corwins company
considering the needs for the product and the market
 The team would need to conduct a research on rubber materials and then develop
them before testing would follow

Requirements Management
Roles & Responsibilities
The key people who are responsible for managing the project include marketing VP who has
initiated the project, Royce who took the bidding decision, Dr. Reddy who would help in the
resource planning and Dan West who would be the project manager of the project.
Name Role Responsibility
Gene Fremel Marketing – VP Project Acceptance
Royce Engineering - VP Bidding decision
Dr. Reddy R&D – Director Project Resource Planning
Dan West R&D – Scientist Project Management
Tools
For the management of the project, a number of project management tools would be used
including responsibility traceability matrix, work breakdown structure, WBS dictionary, and
project requirement documentation.
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Each requirement defined by the client would be recorded in the traceability matrix which
would identify how they would be fulfilled including the source of request, department
responsible, business need it would justify, WBS deliverable it would be connected to, test
strategy to use, responsible person and as the project progresses, the status would keep
getting updated. A sample matrix is provided below which illustrates how requirements of the
project would be recorded (Leroy, 2012)
Requirem
ent
Descriptio
n
Sour
ce
Departme
nt
Business
Need
WBS
Delivera
ble
Test
Strategy
Responsibi
lity
Status
5 tests to
be
completed
as per the
test sheets
provided
Patri
k
Ray
Project
Managem
ent
Test the
product
for its
market
value
Testing Validate
as per
specificati
on sheet
Project
manager
Yet to
begin
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