| Requirements Working Group |
Purpose
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The purpose of the working group is to advance the state of the practices, education and theory of requirements engineering and its relationship to other systems engineering disciplines. |
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Goal
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Expand and promote the body of knowledge of requirements engineering and its benefits within the Systems Engineering communitity. |
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Scope
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Activities cover generically applicable current and future requirements engineering and verification and validation practices; discipline-specific considerations of related areas are avoided. |
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Skills and Expertise Desired
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Representation from the following:
• Requirements engineering practitioners and educators
• Verification and validation practitioners and educators
• Relevant standards body participants
• A diversity of experience levels, disciplines, organizations, enterprises, and nations
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Members, Roles and Responsibilities Desired
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The Leadership team consists of chair and co-chairs.
Members:
• Contribute the benefit of their experience in promoting the purposes of the group
• Write, edit and review work products
• Liaise with other working groups and organizations
• Assist the leadership team with specific tasks such as leading activities
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Outcomes (Products / Services)
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• Working Group Charter (maintain)
• REGAL (Requirements Engineering Guide for All) (maintain)
• Guide for Writing Requirements (maintain)
• SE Handbook contribution in the area of requirements (maintain)
• SE Certification Tutorial and Questions for the general and specialist exams in the area of requirements (maintain)
• Requirements Engineering and Management Analysis Tool matrix (maintain)
• Working group Connect website (maintain)
• Working group public website (maintain)
• Organize and architect requirements material
• RWG promotional material
• Service supporting standards activities relevant to requirements engineering
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Approach
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The Requirements Working Group will:
• meet at International Workshop and International Symposium
• meet virtually via telecom
• maintain its work products
• recruit champions to lead activities
• carry out assignments outside of meetings
• use INCOSE Connect discussion groups to achieve working group consensus
• promote RWG membership collaboration with other INCOSE working groups, other professional societies, commercial and industry committees, government organizations, and academic institutions
• communicate to RWG members and interested INCOSE members via
o RWG Connect website
o RWG Connect threaded discussions
o RWG and INCOSE webinars
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| Leadership |
| Chair: |
Kathy Baksa, Pratt & Whitney, US |
| Co-Chair: |
Frank Salvatore, High Performance Technologies, Inc., US |
| Co-Chair: |
Lou Wheatcraft, Requirements Experts, US |
| Co-Chair: |
Gordon Woods, CiGi Technology Ltd, UK |
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Contact
Requirements Working Group
for additional information or to join this group.
Accomplishments/Products
- REGAL (database of reqs good practice) 2007
- Guide for Concept of Ops (ANSI/AIAA G-043) 2006
- Preliminary REGAL became on-line (http://p-ring.net) for interactive sessions to help users to determine best practices for requirements development and management. Presented at INCOSE International Symposium July 2005.
- “Requirements Completeness”, March 2004 – Prepared by the RWG by Ron Carson (lead), Erik Aslaksen, George Caple, Paul Davies, Regina Griego, Ron Kohl, and Abd-El-Kader Sahraoui. Presented at INCOSE IS 2004 in Toulouse by Ron Carson.
- “Requirements Categorization”, 2001 - Prepared by the RWG by Andrew Gavv (lead), George Caple, Paul Davies, Steve Eppig, David Haines, Anthony Hall, David Jones, Dave Lamont, Jim van Gassbeek, and Bill Vietinghoff.
- “Executable Requirements Management Model Interim Report”, 1998. A RWG Information Report by David Jones. Published in CD-ROM Proceedings of the 8th Annual International Symposium of the International Council on Systems Engineering - Volume II: INCOSE Technical Working Group Papers, 1998.
- “Interfacing Requirements Management Tools In The Requirements Management Process - A First Look”, 1997, A RWG Information Report by David Jones, Pradip Kar, Jim van Gassbeek, Frank Hollenback, Marty Bell, and Dr. Robert Ellinger. Published in Proceedings of the Seventh International Symposium of the INCOSE - Volume II, August 1997
- "Characteristics of Good Requirements” 1996. Prepared by the RWG by Pradip Kar and Michelle Bailey. Presented at the 1996 INCOSE Symposium.
- “Writing Good Requirements” 1994. Prepared by the RWG by Ivy Hooks. Published in the Proceedings of the Third International Symposium of the NCOSE - Volume 2, 1993.
- “What is a Requirement?” 1993. Prepared by the RWG by Richard Harwell (lead), Erik Aslaksen, Roy Mengot, Ivy Hooks, and Ken Ptack. Published in the Proceedings of the Third International Symposium of the NCOSE, 1993.
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