1. RQM 310 Advanced Concepts and Skills for Requirements Management
Good Morning and on behalf of DAU, welcome.
Introduction and Overview
5 Dec 2011

2. Welcome! What does RQM 310 need to do? Introductions Team formation
How are we organized?
What is new here?
Is there follow on support? What kind of support?
Are there other housekeeping details?
Introductions
Team formation
Jeopardy Competition
Discussion: What are our common problems?
During this first hour, I am going to discuss what we need to accomplish this week.
We will go around the room to introduce ourselves.
You can see that we already assigned everybody to teams. We will stay as teams during the Jeopardy competition, the Team-Based Exercise, and the capstone FCB briefing.
Next, we will have a Jeopardy competition to review RQM 110.
We will conclude this morning by discussing your responses to the question we posed in your preliminary assignment: What are our common problems?
RQM Introduction

3. What Does RQM 310 Need to Do?
Aide Requirements Managers to effectively operate within the JCIDS framework
Stress process discipline and quality documentation
Help Requirements Managers solve problems
Bridge gap between Warfighter requirements and the Defense Acquisition Management System
Improve Requirements Mgmt/Program Office comms
What goes wrong?
Natural tension between requirements and procurement
Lack of process discipline and/or top-down direction
Inability to translate Warfighter needs into procurable items or overstating requirements
So what does RQM 310 need to accomplish? First, we need to characterize what the RMs need to know and need to do to deliver warfighter capabilities. The RMs essential job is to work with Program Managers and with Program Offices to keep everybody’s efforts focused on warfighter needs. In our research, we have seen situations where the RMs and the Program Offices do not communicate or communicate very poorly.
What goes wrong?
Often, the RM asks for a specific solution. For example, the RM might ask for a new gun or a new missile. Sometimes we get into trouble because we are too specific. It is the job of the acquisition professionals to deliver on the warfighter requirements given fiscal and industrial constraints/limitations. There are also situations when the RM neglects questions like lead time, supportability, maintainability, and DOTMLPF considerations such as revised training. We lose credibility and effectiveness when we ask program offices for items that are not affordable or are not technically feasible.
We also need to help deliver products on time and be sure that the products meet operational needs In other words, the RM could ask for the wrong things and ask for things the warfighter never uses. Operational conditions, missions, and threats could change before a system is produced.
A common misconception is that the three requirements documents, the ICD, the CDD, and the CPD are all the RM needs to worry about. The RM needs to consider the value of emerging technologies, whether engineering asks the right questions, if the test and evaluation is complete and effective, and if the logistics support will work in the field. To this end, the RM must be there for the engineering and design reviews, the milestone reviews and the test planning. The RM must make the “Big A” acquisition processes responsive to warfighter needs by reviewing engineering and test results to be sure we are delivering effective weapons of war.

4. Requirements Management Training History
The “First Wave” – Answer the mail
CLM 101, RQM 110, RQM 403
The “Second Wave” – Apply lessons learned
RQM 310: Advanced Concepts and Skills
CLR 250: CBAs
CLR 252: Developing Requirements
The “Third Wave” – Personalized attention
On-line resources (CoP)
Webcast: 23 March 2012
CLRs 151 (AoA), 029 (NR-KPP)
The structure of the Requirements Management training courses follows the instructions from Congress and the lessons DAU learned.
First, we answered the Congressional mail by initiating what we call the “First Wave” of training. Congress instructed AT&L and DAU to develop RM training courses and to certify Major Defense Acquisition Program (MDAP) RMs by 30 September 2008.
This course, RQM 310, completes the “Second Wave” of training. We have already deployed CLR 250 and CLR 252. We developed these two CLRs based on our lessons learned from developing RQM 110. DAU promised Congress a working-level classroom course once we completed the mandatory certification courses. RQM 310 also applies the lessons learned as I will discuss on the next slide.
But first, I will discuss the “Third Wave” of training which is the follow-on training to the CLRs and to RQM 310. All too often, students graduate, they move on, they and their school never hear from each other. Our goal is to use the technologies to keep DAU and our graduates working together. To this end, DAU will use on-line resources to offer follow-on support. I already mentioned the follow-on webcast for our graduates. We will also expand our Community of Practice (CoP) so we have an immediate avenue to contact each other. We will have a class on DAU computer support this morning.
RQM Introduction

5. RQM 310 Major Elements Analysis Developing Requirements
Working within JCIDS
Documents
Coordination
JUONs
Communicating with the DAS
Presenting to an FCB
So how did we arrive at the topics for the “Second Wave” and for the “Third Wave?” Our starting point is that RMs develop requirements, write requirements, supervise developing requirements, or adjudicate requirements. Not every RM does every task. Some RMs arrive at the beginning of a project and participate in the analysis. Other RMs work in the field or in a headquarters where they need to communicate requirements to the next level. Others present requirements to the capability boards.
Consider the flow from one activity to another. As we designed RQM 310, we realized that every RM needs to know where the requirements come from, how RMs keep PMs and SPOs focused on warfighter requirements, and where those requirements see final adjudication – at FCBs, the JCB, and the JROC.
As we developed RQM 110, five topics stood out:
Analysis
Developing Requirements
Working within the JCIDS
Working with the DAS, and
JUONs/UONs
RQM Introduction

6. New Ideas In-class exercises Simulation-Based Exercise (SBE)
Prioritization during all phases
Team-Based Exercise (TBS)
JUON
Changing a KPP
Turning Point technology – “Clickers”
Capstone briefing to an FCB
As we developed RQM 310, we were very careful to consider and apply new technologies to add to the educational experience.
Rather than five days of traditional classroom, we have limited the lectures so we could add in-class exercises, discussions, guest speakers, and simulations.
Let’s look at the class schedule for this week. (Next slide)
RQM Introduction

7. Class Schedule

8. Classroom Organization and Feedback
Academic non-attribution
Using the Turning Point “clickers”
Jeopardy!
Review quizzes
Class evaluation
Using DAU computers
Slides and Reading Assignments
A policy of ACADEMIC FREEDOM – an individual in an academic setting may express opinions concerning current or proposed policies, regulations and procedures openly and honestly
ACADEMIC FREEDOM DOES NOT MEAN that an individual in an academic setting may attack the character, personality or other personal attributes of another individual
Personal attacks will not be tolerated
****Examples used in class We are not picking on any service, agency or program. We can learn lessons from all examples.
A policy of NON-ATTRIBUTION – whatever an individual may say in an academic setting will not be attributed to them if their thoughts or ideas are repeated outside of the class setting
We encourage the faculty and the students to state their opinions, support of, or criticism of any objective, policy, strategy, or tactic. Academic non-attribution means that we cannot attribute specific statements or remarks to specific speakers (by name or other identifying comments) unless specifically allowed by the speaker. In other words, we don’t go quoting guest speakers or each other outside of class.
We will use the Turning Point “clickers” several times this week. We are going to have a team competition to see which team remembers RQM 110 the best. The slides we use for our class discussions include review questions, and we will answer those questions using the clickers. At the end of each block of classes, we will ask questions so we have your instant feedback.
You can see we also have DAU computers loaded up with the class files and with the on-line simulations.
RQM Introduction

9. Follow on Support We expect much from our graduates Follow-on classes
Guest speakers
Guest evaluators
Follow-on support
You know how to find us!
On-line Community of Practice (CoP)
Will discuss later this morning
Webcasts and Podcasts
We are also going to need your help after you graduate. We will need your help as guest speakers and as guest evaluators after this course goes live. We have your contact information; we will be in touch.
In turn, we encourage you to get back with us if you have questions, problems, good examples, or lessons learned. We tried to organize this course so it does not get stagnant or stale.
RQM Introduction

10. Administration Food Clothing Base Housing Parking spaces
Places to eat on/off post
Many choices available
Coffee Fund
$5 for the week
Place $ in cash box
Clothing
Course attire is business casual
Uniform/business attire as if visiting Pentagon or on official business
Base Housing
15 mph
Parking spaces
Class Learning Environment
Leave electronic devices: cell phones, blackberries outside the classroom

11. Ft. Belvoir I-95 Defense Acquisition University
Park-ing
Loisdale Road
Telegraph Road
Woodlawn Road
Beulah Road
Fairfax County Parkway
Kingman Road
Mt. Vernon
Visitor Parking
18th Street
19th Street
Gillespie Rd.
I-66
I-95
Rt. 1
(Caution: there is another “Gunston Rd.” 2 miles south of Ft. Belvoir)
Dulles International Airport
Belvoir Road
Mt. Vernon Parkway
Defense Acquisition University
9820 Belvoir Rd.
Ft. Belvoir, VA
Gunston Road
Pohick Rd.
Rte. 7100
Mt. Vernon Rd.
Rt. 235
Springfield Mall
Backlick Rd
Franconia Road
I-495
I-395
Olde Towne
Pentagon
Mall
Duke St.
I- 295
Edsal Road
Van Dorn
Ft. Belvoir
Ft. Belvoir / Newington Exit X
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Community Club
Tulley Gate
Pence Gate Re
Ft. Hunt Rd.
Eisenhower Ave
Springfield Plaza
Keene Mill Road
Mar 29, 2010
Packard Conference Center
(Blg 184)
Cafeteria
Garden Center
Parking
DAU
Officers’ Club
Bowl
Roy’s
McD’s
Ha1
Hospital Mo
Ho1
ATM
Abbott Rd.
X = Closed Roads on Ft. Belvoir
= Traffic Light
= Lunch Places
Cedar Knoll
Ft Belvoir Officers’ Club M
Huntington
Metro Station
Springfield
Walker
Gate
23th Street
21th Street
12th Street
Woodlawn Dr
Belvoir Dr
Always obey the posted speed limits on base
= Access gates

12. DEFENSE ACQUISITION UNIVERSITY CAMPUS MAP
PARKING
18th STREET
North
Bldg 209
Bldg 207
Bldg 205
CAFETERIA
GYM
226
Staff &
Faculty Parking
SCOTT
HALL
Bldg 202
MIDDLETON STREET
BELVOIR ROAD
GUNSTON ROAD
Bldg 208
Bldg 206
Bldg 204
19th STREET
ESSAYONS
184
Packard Conf Ctr.
Bldg 231
PARKING

13. Introductions Faculty and Support Staff Students Name
Service and experience
DAU projects and RQM 310 topics
Students
Organization
Location
What do you want to get out of RQM 310?
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14. Our First Team Competition
Requirements Jeopardy!
What do you remember from RQM 110?
Play as teams
Move the clickers around
Respond quickly and accurately
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15. BACKUPS
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