Requirements management plan
“Requirements Management Plan” is an output for the process “Plan Scope Management”.
The requirements management plan is a component of the project management plan that describes how requirements will be analyzed, documented, and managed. The phase-to-phase relationship, described in , strongly influences how requirements are managed. The project manager chooses the most” effective relationship for the project and documents this approach in the requirements management plan. Many of the requirements management plan components are based on that relationship.
Components of the requirements management plan can include, but are not limited to:
– How requirements activities will be planned, tracked, and reported;
– Configuration management activities such as: how changes to the product will be initiated, how impacts will be analyzed, how they will be traced, tracked, and reported, as well as the authorization levels
required to approve these changes;
– Requirements prioritization process;
– Product metrics that will be used and the rationale for using them; and – Traceability structure to reflect which requirement attributes will be captured on the traceability matrix.
“Requirements Management Plan” is an input for the process “Collect Requirements”.
The requirements management plan provides the processes that will be used throughout the Collect Requirements process to define and document the stakeholder needs.
This definition was found in the PMBOK V5
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