QRA’s QVscribe is a trusted tool to evaluate requirements quality at the individual level. With enhancements such as the new Glossary of approved terms, QVscribe continues to evolve as a collaborative partner in the atomic refinement of engineering artifacts. 

Our new product, Qubric, extends that partnership to collaboratively generate requirements, eliminating risk by filling critical gaps within existing engineering artifacts. Qubric helps your team generate high-quality, low-risk requirements in the first place. 

• Track trends in project quality and team performance 

• Flag redundancies and contradictions in sets of requirements 

• Classify incoming requirements 

• Evaluate alignment in networks of project artifacts 

We will soon introduce Snapshots of Project Quality, showing at-a-glance risk distribution across requirements along with the prime contributors to this risk. Snapshots can guide where to focus efforts to improve requirements quality, as well as where team training may be most effective. 

We will also introduce graphical Timelines of these snapshots, highlighting trends in project quality and progress towards mission-critical quality milestones. Timelines provide an incisive communication tool for review meetings and can motivate your team on their requirements journey.  

QRAcloud users will be the first to experience Snapshots and Timelines, which will integrate seamlessly with their QVscribe experience. 

Redundant and contradicting requirements represent a prime source of risk beyond the quality of individual requirements. We are enhancing our similarity analysis to flag both of these cases, allowing undesired duplication to be efficiently eliminated and conflicting requirements driven to resolution. 

This capability will grow to accommodate comparison across projects, for example, to evaluate commonality between an incoming requirement set and its predecessors. 

Digesting incoming requirements, particularly when these are delivered in a “flat” document, often starts with determining their hierarchy. This can mean classifying requirements according to their relative level, or to their associated sub-system – a labor-intensive process that can gate even bidding on an opportunity. 

We are in early development of tools to automate this process, and welcome feedback on your goals and underserved needs with classifying requirements. 

Even with high-quality individual requirements (high atomic quality), risk can remain at the holistic level if there is misalignment within the network of requirements. This misalignment can take the form of critical gaps (missing requirements); conflict between hierarchical branches; or traceability gaps between levels of requirements. 

We are in early development of tools to automate traceability and gap analysis, and welcome feedback on your goals and underserved needs. 

In combination with QVscribe and Qubric, QRA’s holistic prediction toolset will further accelerate your team in creating risk-free artifacts for high-stakes engineering endeavors. The first of these tools – Snapshots and Timelines – will appear in late 2024. Watch this space for further updates!