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What is Ralphyoung.net?

Ralphyoung.net is a web site dedicated to improving project management and requirements practices. Our mission is to provide ideas, suggestions, recommendations, and resources for those who must understand and manage projects and requirements in the systems and software engineering world.

The requirements process is a full system life cycle set of activities that includes:

  • Understanding the customers' needs and expectations
  • Identifying the requirements
  • Analyzing the requirements
  • Defining the requirements
  • Clarifying and restating the requirements
  • Prioritizing requirements
  • Deriving requirements
  • Partitioning requirements
  • Allocating requirements
  • Tracking requirements
  • Managing requirements
  • Testing and verifying requirements
  • Validating requirements

Requirements development and project management need additional attention as key factors in the success of systems and software development projects. This web site addresses both managerial and technical requirements issues. These topics are discussed in detail in Dr. Young's books, articles and presentations.

What are the 10 effective requirements practices that have proven themselves essential for project success?

The 10 Practices are:

  • Commit to the approach
  • Establish and utilize a Joint Team responsible for the requirements
  • Define the real customer needs
  • Use and continually improve a requirements process
  • Iterate the system requirements and architecture repeatedly
  • Use a mechanism to maintain project communication
  • Select familiar methods and maintain a set of work products
  • Perform requirements verification and validation
  • Provide an effective mechanism to accommodate requirements changes
  • Perform the development effort using known familiar proven industry,
    organizational, and project best practices    .

    For a downloadable PowerPoint version of the 10 Effective Requirements Practices, please click here.

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