Disciplines > Requirements > Workflow > Review Requirements

Purpose To top of page

The purpose of this workflow detail is to: Formally verify that the results of the Requirements discipline conform to the customer's view of the system.

Changes to requirements naturally impact the models produced in the Analysis & Design discipline and the Test Plan created in the Test discipline .

Another important concept is the tracking of requirement history. By capturing the nature and rationale of requirements changes, reviewers (in this case the role is played by anyone on the software project team whose work is affected by the change) receive the information needed to respond to the change properly.

Regular reviews, along with updates to the attributes and dependencies, should be done as shown in this workflow detail whenever the requirements specifications are updated.

How to Staff To top of page

Involve the extended team ( stakeholders , customer representatives, domain experts, and others). Be careful to manage your reviewing resources effectively-do not include the entire extended team unless you can ensure it adds value to the project.

The extended team should cover good knowledge of the problem domain and the technical difficulties of the project.

Work Guidelines To top of page

The core development team should conduct a few rounds of internal walkthroughs to clean up unnecessary inconsistencies before their work is more formally inspected and reviewed by the extended team.

You should divide the material up so that the team does not review everything at once. A review meeting shouldn't take more than a day (for example, conduct separate reviews of the user interface).