More About Software Requirements: Thorny Issues and Practical Advice

Part VII. On Managing Requirements

Whatever collection of requirements information your team accumulates must be stored and managed throughout the course of the project. Part VII addresses some specific aspects of managing these requirements. Chapter 20, deals with the perplexing matter of concurrently working with sets of requirements that are intended for various future product versions. Several options are presented with their advantages and shortcomings. Chapter 21, addresses these two types of requirements information, which are often confused.

Chapter 22, proposes some basic metrics that can help you get a handle on what’s happening with your requirements engineering process. These metrics address the standard software measurement categories ...