Planning for Requirements Management - Requirements Engineering and Management for Software Development Projects - page 109

7.6 Planning for Requirements Management in Projects

We need to plan for the following requirements engineering activities in our
project plans:

1. Requirements Elicitation and Gathering
2. Requirements Analysis
3. Requirements Establishment
4. Requirements Change Control and Management
5. Requirements Tracing, Tracking and Reporting
6. Measurement and Metrics.

Let us discuss planning for each of these in greater detail.

7.6.1 Requirements Elicitation and Gathering

The activities of elicitation and gathering would be included in the SPMP which
would include:

1. The resources required, namely, the human resources, the number required,
the proposed role for each of the individuals, when exactly they would be
needed (this aspect can be referenced from the project schedule), the likely
release dates, the qualifications, experience and expertise necessary for the
individuals, and any other project specific needs would be recorded here. Other
resources like the laptops, voice recorders, video recorders, Internet connec-
tivity, special software tools and any other project specific hardware resources
would also be included in this plan. It would also include funds requirement, if
any, for procurement of special hardware, software tools, travel, stay and
boarding, as well as any other project specific requirements.
2. The methodology adopted for the project—The methodology includes the
software development life cycle, work management (allocation and de-alloca-
tion, measurement and metrics etc.), communication, progress review, report-
ing and so on. SPMP would also record the specific methodology adopted for
each of the aspects of the project. This could be simply a reference to relevant
organizational process assets. Or it may point to documents maintained under
the configuration management of the project. In some cases, it may even be
recorded within SPMP itself! Whatever the case may be, SPMP will make it
clear as to the specific methodology adopted for the project for elicitation and
gathering.
3. The standards and guidelines—SPMP would normally specify the standards
and guidelines selected for use in the project. These may be organizational
standards or client organization's standards. SPMP would point to the location
of the standards and guidelines selected for the project which may within the
organizational process assets library or within the project configuration