1. Requirements Working Group

2. 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
Number of Members
INCOSE Web page
392 (446)
IW Participants
Other Web page 87
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3. 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
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4. 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)
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5. 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)
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6. 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”
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7. 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