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Got Traceability?

Andrew Makar, PMP

September 19, 2007




How do you ensure the business requirements defined at the start of the project are successfully transformed into the IT solution?
 
As a project manager, we spend considerable effort tracking project issues, risks and project schedules. How often do we track business requirements to ensure the requirements are correctly developed? Without requirements traceability, projects run the risk of assuming business requirements will be translated into a solution once the initial business requirement specification or use case is defined.
 
According to Carnegie Melon’s Software Engineering Institute, requirements traceability is “the ability to describe and follow the life of a requirement, in both a forward and backward direction”. Traceability indicates the requirement can be tracked from its origins, specification, development, deployment and use as the project executes across the project lifecycle.



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