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Requirements Development

Requirements are the cornerstone of the product development process.  Identify requirements correctly and you foster creativity. Identify them incorrectly, and you limit your development options.

This course utilizes the Dual Vee development model to demonstrate the impact of requirements throughout the product development lifecycle. The workshop approach uses your project and either reviews the requirements developed to date, or develops requirements based on the information gathered to date.  

  • Requirements Development Workshop Overview


    Overview of the product development process

    • Impact of requirements on product solution
    • Systems thinking - seeing the forest (market) and the trees (product)
    • Product lifecycle
    • Product Development using the Dual Vee

    Writing Requirements

    • Identifying Stakeholders
    • Gathering Requirements
    • Writing Requirements
    • Requirements preparation for concept development

    Using Requirements

    • Concepts Architecture and Design (CAD) overview
    • Concept development
    • Concept selection
    • Requirement flowdown and traceability
  • Stakeholders

    A key premise in writing requirements is to understand the customers' wants and needs.   The primary stakeholder of a commercial client is often internal marketing and or management. The process for gathering requirements in the public sector is therefore very different (working with stakeholders and gatekeepers) than the process for gathering requirements in the government sector where requirements are typically defined in the RFP.

PD Mentors courses are a blend of lecture, large group exercises and hands-on work.  Our hands-on exercises are designed to reinforce concepts by using terminology from your industry.

Extracted from Requirements Development Best Practices Document

Success Factors

Requirements Development is a methodical process to ensure availability of correct decision criteria for selecting solutions (concepts and architectures) for the product or system of interest.  To ensure proper requirements development:

  • Install a systematic requirements development process
  • Implement Requirements Review decision gates
  • Require User Concept of Operations artifacts for each decision gate
  • Require a weighted solution selection criteria.



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PD Mentors Inc,
Louisville, KY
ph: 502 804 4765 extension 2

ken@pdmentors.com