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1.3.2 Context‐Based Measurement of Requirements Instability
Author(s) -
Biddle Mark,
Moritz Shelly
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
incose international symposium
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2334-5837
DOI - 10.1002/j.2334-5837.2006.tb02731.x
Subject(s) - instability , context (archaeology) , schedule , computer science , requirements management , requirements elicitation , requirements analysis , order (exchange) , risk analysis (engineering) , reliability engineering , engineering , business , software , programming language , geography , physics , archaeology , mechanics , operating system , finance
Requirements instability has always been and continues to be one of the more significant challenges for system development programs. Historical results across industry show that programs struggle and often fail to achieve stable and mature requirements baselines, and the impact of requirements instability on program cost, schedule and technical baselines is significant. This paper looks at some of the factors that affect requirements instability, and it outlines an approach for measuring requirements instability that takes contextual influences into account in order to provide insight as to why the requirements on a given program are unstable.