Requirements management enables organizations to transform good ideas into breakthrough products by considering all relevant functional, performance, safety, regulatory, and market needs. Mature requirements management practices provide a foundation for product excellence.
Organizations decide how teams will analyze, document, validate, and govern changes to requirements, working within Agile, V-model, or other processes.
The ultimate aim is to deliver a product or service that satisfies the requirements agreed to so that requirements engineering naturally flows into the design and manufacture or implementation.
Sound requirements management is a foundational discipline for product, systems, and software engineering teams. Organizations with mature requirements management practices:
Build products that better meet market needs, achieving competitive advantage
Reduce rework from missed or poor-quality requirements, shortening product cycles
Create a more accurate, shared product vision more quickly, speeding product delivery
Enhance reuse, reducing development costs