Guides & Checklists
Automating the INCOSE Guide for Writing Requirements
A time-saving guide for system engineers and requirements analysts.
Guides & Checklists
Medical Device Guide & Checklist: The 10 Essentials for Writing a Clear Product Requirements Document
We distilled the insights from our research into this one guide + checklist that we hope will help accelerate the requirements engineering phase of your medical device projects.
Requirement Engineering
How to Overcome the Top 4 Challenges in Medical Device Manufacturing
Covering the top 4 challenges faced by the medical device manufacturing industry, this article explains how effective requirements planning allows organizations to proactively position themselves to meet unique challenges associated with medical device manufacturing.
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Mastering the Requirements Review Process – Comprehensive Guide & Checklist
Requirements authoring is a tedious process. An inevitable effect of complex and tedious work is the possibility of introducing errors along the way. This is where the requirements review process comes in.
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Aerospace Requirements Guide and Checklist: 10 Essential Best Practices for Assuring Compliance with DO-178C
This guide describes ten requirements engineering (RE) best practices aerospace organizations can apply to help assure their avionic software complies with DO-178C. The accompanying checklist is meant to help those organizations embed these best practices, both within their RE process and in the minds of their engineers.
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Requirement Elicitation Techniques: A step-by-step guide
Requirement elicitation is more than simply asking “what are the most important features in product X?”. Stakeholders frequently have ideas, wants or needs floating in the back of their minds, but these may not be clear, even to themselves. So, it’s the job of requirements elicitor to draw these out of the stakeholders and help them articulate their vision, as well as their understanding of the end product.
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Teaching Junior Engineers How to Author Requirements: A Guide to Knowledge Transfer
It’s important to learn from our mistakes, but even more valuable to learn from the mistakes of others. In many cases, best practices develop from what industries or organizations learn from these mistakes. Without effective knowledge transfer, you risk the loss of important organizational knowledge and the associated competitive advantage.
Requirement Engineering
How to Reuse Requirements: 7 Tips for Reusability Best Practices
Many safety-critical industries reuse requirements as a way of saving time, however, if this is done incorrectly or without proper steps taken to ensure the reused requirements are still accurate and relevant to the current project, critical errors can occur which cost more than it would to simply author the requirements from scratch.
Requirement Engineering
Business Rules and Requirements Aren’t the Same
Both business rules and requirements are necessary for fully scoping a system, but what is the difference between the two? When nailing down your requirements doc, it’s important to not muddy the two terms. Let’s get started with some definitions so we can clearly see where business rules and requirements differ.
Requirement Engineering
5 Common Requirements Authoring Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
Writing project requirements, especially for complex or safety-critical products, is a tedious process. Errors are easily introduced at any stage of the process – even before pen meets paper to start writing the requirements document. Here are five ways you may not have thought of that can cause those errors.