Requirements Basics: Writing Requirements correctly

Textual requirements are often described in a way that is ambiguous or imprecise. This poses a significant project risk and complicates the verification and validation of the product under development. With better requirements, you reduce these risks, use your requirements more efficiently, and create a solid foundation for communication among all project stakeholders.

Objective and Benefits

You will understand the importance of good requirements for development and testing. You will be able to formulate understandable, unambiguous, and testable requirements. This provides you with objective evaluation criteria for identifying defects and teaches you methods and techniques for requirements formulation. As a result, you improve the quality of your documents, communicate more easily and effectively with your customers and subcontractors, and increase the success of your projects using simple means.

Agenda

• Characteristics of Language
• Basic Principles of Language
• Language in the Requirements Engineering Process
• A Set of Linguistic Rules for Formulating Requirements
• Formulating and Reviewing Requirements Using a Sample Project

Target Audience

Requirements engineers, (technical) project managers, quality assurance engineers, development engineers, test engineers

Prerequisites

A basic understanding of requirements engineering and management processes is desirable