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Requirements Working Group

Welcome to the Website for the INCOSE Requirements Working Group!
Please also visit: INCOSE RWG - YouTube
INCOSE RWG Connect Site (for INCOSE members): https://connect.incose.org/WorkingGroups/Requirements/Pages/Home.aspx

Please see links below for highlights of the INCOSE RWG products, please download our Manual and Guides from the INCOSE Store! Pages - Store (incose.org)
Recent INCOSE RWG Products:

Needs and Requirements Manual (NRM) - Needs, Requirements, Verification, Validation Across the Lifecycle
Guide to Needs and Requirements (GtNR) - a practical application guide
Guide to Verification and Validation (GtVV) - a practical application guide
Guide to Writing Requirements (GtWR) - a practical application guide

Some useful content for Needs and Requirements Development:

INCOSE_RWG_GtWR_Summary_Sheet_2022

GtWR_Rules_Crossreference_Matrix

GtWR_NRM_Crossreference_matrix_1

GtWR_NRM_Crossreference_Matrix_2

Validation_Verification_in_context

IS2022 Requirements Working Group Meeting Highlights

The Requirements Working Group (RWG) held a general meeting at IS2022 as a follow-up from our IW2022 meeting last January. Topics discussed:

Provide overview of the Needs and Requirements Manual and accompanying Guides
Provide status of Guide to Writing Requirement updates
Discuss next steps in Guide to Writing Requirements
Review WG meeting and activity plans for rest of 2022

Meeting slides are available below.
This meeting was recorded and will soon be posted to our RWG YouTube channel (link above).

RWG_IS2022_Meeting_Slides

Upcoming RWG Events

The RWG holds regular RWG Exchange Cafes and also hosts guest speakers. We alternate between the RWG Exchange Cafes and guest speaker presentations. A preliminary schedule between now and IW2023 is shown below.

August 24, 3 pm Central: RWG Exchange Café – Beth Wilson and Lou Wheatcraft will lead a discussion related to System of Systems (SoS) and impacts of needs and requirements development in the context of the new Needs and Requirements Manual from the Requirements Working Group. Zoom link: https://incose-org.zoom.us/j/95587205849?pwd=R0llRTd1bUc1b0JMeFF3aEFNTVM1UT09
September 28, 3 pm Central: RWG Exchange Café – General discission focusing on interfaces. Zoom link: https://incose-org.zoom.us/j/97034710652?pwd=V01nYjhBZWVjRW93OWphYk5HRXUzZz09
October 26, 3 pm Central:: Presentation by Beth Wilson – System Security Challenges. Zoom link: https://incose-org.zoom.us/j/95183248479?pwd=ZndwVUwvWDZXWW5oeHNHVmxidXdlZz09
November 16, 3 pm Central: RWG Exchange Café – Beth Wilson lead on System Security vs NRM, GtNR, GtVV. Zoom link: https://incose-org.zoom.us/j/95248885941?pwd=Y1RlVUZlSUIrUXFhR1I0a1RNRzZpQT09
December 14, 3 pm Central: Presentation by Henrik Mattfolk “Configuration Management Across the Digital Thread”. Zoom link: https://incose-org.zoom.us/j/92108182380?pwd=ZVNUMXhNa1BxamxnMk5IRVE5MXB3QT09
January 2023:IW 2023 RWG prevent sessions - TBD

Notifications of our monthly meetings is via the RWG member mailing list, LinkedIn, Twitter, and the INCOSE Teams and Yammer sites. Both INCOSE members and non-members alike are welcome to attend and participate in our monthly meetings as well as view recordings of our meetings via the INCOSE RWG YouTube channel.

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Mission & Objectives

1. Purpose: Advance the state of the practices, education and theory of requirements engineering and its relationship to other systems engineering functions.

2. Goal: Expand and promote the body of knowledge of requirements engineering and its benefits within the systems engineering community.

3. Scope: Activities relating to requirements engineering best practices.

4. Skills and expertise required: Representation from the following:

Requirements engineering practitioners and educators
Relevant standards body participants
SE Tool Vendors
A diversity of experience levels, disciplines, organizations, enterprises, and nations

Leadership

Chair: Tami Katz, Ball Aerospace, USA

Co-Chair: Lou Wheatcraft; Wheatland Consulting, USA

Co-Chair: Mike Ryan; Capability Associates Pty Ltd, Australia

Co-Chair: Raymond Wolfgang, Sandia National Labs, USA

Working Group Products

Maintain the working group charter
Maintain the Guide to Writing Requirements
Contribute to the requirement-related portions of the SE handbook and SEBoK
Contribute to the development of SE ontologies
Formulate guidance for the development and management of requirements in a model-based environment
Maintain the RWG connect website
Maintain the RWG public website
Service supporting standards activities relevant to requirements engineering

Planned Working Sessions at the Next Events

The Requirement Working Group will:

meet at International Workshop
meet virtually via telecom
maintain its work products
recruit champions to lead activities
carry out assignments outside of meetings
use INCOSE RWG 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
- RWG website
- RWG threaded discussions

provide INCOSE tutorials and webinars