Task: Organize Requirements
Support tracking and managing requirements by categorizing, packaging, and assigning attributes to them
Disciplines: Requirements
Purpose
  • To help monitor project progress by maintaining the status of requirements
  • To package requirements so that it is easy for the project team to find, manage, and avoid duplication
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    Main Description
    This task describes the decisions involved in organizing the project requirements. A large requirement set will quickly become unmanageable if it is not organized so that the analysts and other project team members can easily find them. The organizational structure must be captured in the requirements management plan.
    Steps
    Categorize requirements

    Assign each requirement to a requirement type from among those requirement types identified for use in the project. In projects with more formality, the requirement types are specified in the Requirements Management Process Description. See Guideline: Categorizing Requirements for information on how to assign requirements to the proper category.

    Assign attributes
    Analyze and understand each individual requirement. As part of the initial analysis of each requirement, assign requirement attribute values to each requirement. This improves your ability to track and manage the requirements. Review existing attribute values and update as necessary. Attributes are defined in Artifact: Requirements Attributes.
    Organize the requirements
    Help the stakeholders understand the requirements better by organizing them into packages. The definition of the packages is usually organization-specific, and can sometimes be project-specific. See Guideline: Packaging Requirements for more information.
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