Roles and Responsibilities in REM - Requirements Engineering and Management for Software Development Projects - page 158

Whatever method the organization chooses, for recognizing and rewarding, it is
necessary to have a system of recognition and rewards to motivate in the
organization to motivate the staff toward higher level of performance.
All of those above activities are the responsibility of the organization. All these
activities create an environment that is conducive to producing great results and
delivering quality outputs. Once the environment is in place, the individuals can
excel in that environment. One cannot excel in a poor environment.
11.3 Role of the Individuals
An organization has the onus of creating the right environment in which
individuals can excel. But ultimately it is the individuals that perform the function
and deliver the results. We have the following individual roles in the context of
requirements engineering and management in software development projects:
1. Business/System Analysts
2. Quality Control
3. Project Manager
4. Process definition and improvement group
5. Senior management
Let us discuss the role of each of these individuals.
11.3.1 Business/System Analysts
These are the people who bear the brunt of carrying out the requirements
engineering work. They bear the primary responsibility for the deliverables within
accepted schedule and at the best possible quality. They carry out the requirements
elicitation, gathering, analysis, establishment of requirements preparing the
traceability matrix initially and the acceptance testing finally to ensure that the
final product meets all the requirements effectively. The rest of the individuals
either perform quality control on their deliverables or supervise (project manager/
leader) them or work under (technical writers) them. What are the responsibilities
of this set of people? Here they are:
1. Take ownership of the requirements engineering activity in a project or as
directed by the organizational management
2. Carry out all requirements activities diligently, accurately and efficiently and
on time
3. Establish project requirements on time and as defect-free as possible
4. Keep their knowledge up to date through organization sponsored programs
and self-study