Requirements Working Group

INCOSE Connect address WORKING GROUP NAME Chair: Lou Wheatcraft, USA Co-Chair:  Mike Ryan, Australia Co-Chair: Jeremy Dick, UK Co-Chair: Kathy Baska, USA Co-Chair: Rick Zinni, USA Co-Chair: Jason Baker, USA Chairs /co-chairs INCOSE Connect address https://connect.incose.org/WorkingGroups/Requirements/Pages/Home.aspx Number of Members INCOSE Web page https://www.incose.org/ChaptersGroups/WorkingGroups/process/requirements 392 (446) IW Participants Other Web page 87 January 2, 2019 www.incose.org/IW2018

Charter Purpose Goal Scope 1 The purpose of the Requirements Working Group (RWG) is to advance the practices, education and theory of requirements development and management and the relationship of requirements to other systems engineering functions. 2 Goal Expand and promote the body of knowledge of requirements and its benefits within the systems engineering community 3 Scope Activities relating to best practices for requirements development and management throughout the product lifecycle including: Elicitation Analysis Allocation Traceability Elaboration Management Change Management Expression Verification Validation January 2, 2019 www.incose.org/IW2018

Published Products Guide for Writing Requirements – 2017 version Guide for Writing Requirements Summary – 2017 version Web tutorials to support Guide for Writing Requirements (need to be updated to reflect 2017 Guide) January 2, 2019 www.incose.org/IW2018

2018 IW Outcomes (1) Provided an overview to the Guide for Writing Requirements for new members Provided an overview of the draft document Integrated Data as a Foundation of SE. Participated in joint WG sessions: Tool Integrations, Oil & Gas WG, Ontology Discussion on effective requirement communication (MBSE related) Discussion concerning issues with integrating requirement development & management with modeling activities. (MBSE related) Discussion to mature the concept of information-based approach to Requirement Development & Management (RDM) (MBSE related) January 2, 2019 www.incose.org/IW2018

2018 IW Outcomes (2) Presentations from several tool vendors on capabilities to develop & manage rqmts Presentation on knowledge management application to modeling case study Presentation on the work being done to translate the Guide into Russian Matured the content of an draft extension to the Guide for Writing Requirements to illustrate the process of developing a set of system requirements using a coffee maker case study Ask the Experts – set aside time to address issues/questions that RWG session attendees have concerning requirements development and management Support WG MarketPlace All IW presentations and associated presentations are available on the RWG Connect web site: Click on the “IW2018” link on the left Then select “documents” https://connect.incose.org/WorkingGroups/Requirements/Pages/Home.aspx January 2, 2019 www.incose.org/IW2018

Planned Work Maintain Guide for Writing Requirements Baseline document: Integrated Data as a Foundation of SE Update current webinar-based training for the Guide for WR with new on- demand training Active participation in IS 2018 Continue work on the Supplement to the Guide for Writing Requirements with a case study: coffee machine Populate the Requirements section of the MBSE wiki Begin development of Guide for Managing Requirements Support efforts to update the SE tool data base Maintain the RWG public and Connect web sites January 2, 2019 www.incose.org/IW2018