CMMI Requirement Management

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CMMI - Requirement Management

• Maturity Level 2

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Purpose

• Manage the requirements of the
• Project's products
• Product components
• Identify inconsistencies between
• Requirements
• Project's plans
• Work products

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Goals

• Specific goal
• Manage Requirements
• Generic goals
• Institutionalize a Managed Process
• Institutionalize a Defined Process

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Manage requirements - Practices

• Obtain an Understanding of Requirements
• Obtain Commitment to Requirements
• Manage Requirements Changes
• Maintain Bidirectional Traceability of
  Requirements
• Identify Inconsistencies between Project Work and
  Requirements

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SP1.1-1 Obtain an Understanding of Requirements

• Establish criteria for distinguishing appropriate
  requirements providers
• Establish objective criteria for the acceptance
  of requirements
• Analyze requirements to ensure that the
  established criteria are met
• Reach an understanding of the requirements

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Typical Work Products

• Lists of criteria for distinguishing appropriate
  requirements providers
• List of criteria for evaluation and acceptance of
  requirements
• Clearly and properly stated
• Complete
• Consistent with each other
• Appropriate to implement
• Results of analyses against criteria
• An agreed-to set of requirements

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SP1.2-2 Obtain Commitment to Requirements

• Assess the impact of requirements on existing
  commitments
• Negotiate commitments
• Record commitments

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Typical Work Products

• Requirements impact assessments
• Documented commitments to requirements
• Documented commitments to requirements changes

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SP1.3-1 Manage Requirements Changes

• Capture all requirements
• Capture all requirements changes
• Maintain the requirements change
• Evaluate the impact of requirement changes
• Make the requirements available to the project
• Make the change data available to the project

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Typical Work Products

• Requirements status
• Requirements database
• Requirements decision database

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SP1.4-2 Maintain Bidirectional Traceability of
Requirements

• Maintain requirements traceability
• Generate the requirements traceability matrix

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Typical Work Products

• Requirements traceability matrix
• Requirements tracking system

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SP1.5-1 Identify Inconsistencies

• Review the project's plans, activities, and work
  products
• Identify the source of the inconsistency
• Identify changes that need to be made
• Initiate corrective actions

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Typical Work Products

• Documentation of inconsistencies
• Sources
• Conditions
• Rationale
• Corrective actions

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Conclusion

• Gather and accept requirement
• Manage requirement changes
• Commitment to implement
• Identification of inconsistencies

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Generic goals

• Institutionalize a Managed Process
• Required at Maturity Level 2 and above
• Managed process is accepted by team
• Institutionalize a Defined Process
• Required at Maturity Level 3 and above
• Establish and maintain the description of a
  defined requirements management process
• Defined process is accepted by team

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GG 1 Achieve Specific Goals

• Perform Base Practices

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GG 2 Institutionalize a Managed Process

• Establish an Organizational Policy
• Plan the Process
• Provide Resources
• Assign Responsibility
• Train People
• Manage Configurations
• Identify and Involve Relevant Stakeholders
• Monitor and Control the Process
• Objectively Evaluate Adherence
• Review Status with Higher Level Management

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GG 3 Institutionalize a Defined Process

• Establish a Defined Process
• Collect Improvement Information

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GG 4 Institutionalize a Quantitatively Managed
Process

• Establish Quantitative Objectives for the Process
• Stabilize Subprocess Performance

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GG 5 Institutionalize an Optimizing Process

• Ensure Continuous Process Improvement
• Correct Root Causes of Problems

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Related Process Areas

• Requirements Development
• Technical Solution
• Project Planning
• Configuration Management
• Project Monitoring and Control
• Risk Management

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References

• CMMI Version 1.1 Tutorial Materials
• Details on Requirement Management