Topic: Requirements Management Metrics

Requirements Management Metrics

Requirements management can provide vital information. For example, by associating costs with requirements and using the data to estimate similar work, improvements in cost estimates are possible. The development processes must be stable enough to make the cost data comparable, however.

Some measures of the effectiveness of the requirements process include:

• the status of each requirement
• the cumulative number of changes (including the cumulative number proposed, open, approved, and incorporated into the baseline)
• effort and funds expended