Requirements

Requirements Working Group

INCOSE Working Group focused on improving the practice of needs, requirements development, management, verification and validation. Open to all INCOSE members.

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Welcome to Requirements Working Group

Our mission

The purpose of the Requirements Working Group (RWG) is to advance the practices, education and theory of systems engineering through excellence in needs and requirements definition and management, verification, and validation across the lifecycle.

The RWG work contributes to the realization of INCOSE's Vision 2035.

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INCOSE RWG Monthly Meeting

The RWG meeting will be announced soon.

Click here to read more about our sessions.

Process Enablers

TechOps Domain

2154

Members

1992

Established

Chair

Lou Wheatcraft (Wheatland Consulting)

Co-Chair(s)

Mike Ryan (Capability Associates)
Kevin Orr (Eaton)
Jeffery Williams (University of Alabama in Huntsville)
Sarah Vazquez (Veoveer)
Katarzyna Kot (BA Coach)

Send us an email at

[email protected]

Our goals:

1. Develop and maintain INCOSE’s body of knowledge on with needs and requirements development and management across all systems engineering lifecycle process activities.

2. Communicate the importance of the relationship of needs and requirements to other systems engineering activities and artifacts.

3. Engage with the SE community, particularly through collaboration with other Working Groups.

4. Promote best practices associated with needs, requirements, verification, and validation in today's increasingly complex, software intensive systems.

5. Continue research into needs and requirements definition and management, including understanding the role of needs, requirements, verification, and validation across the lifecycle.

6. Support INCOSE’s efforts to move from a document-centric to a data-centric practice of SE.

Outcomes

The RWG will realize the following outcomes:
• Successful RWG meetings at IW and IS.
• Monthly virtual meetings and recordings.
• Presentations on the INCOSE RWG YouTube Channel.
• Up-to-date work products.
• Inputs to the SEBOK.
• Inputs to revisions of the SE HBK.
• Champions to lead RWG activities.
• Volunteers to participate in and contribute to RWG activities.
• Viva Engage discussions among RWG members.
• Announcements on Viva Engage and emails.
• Up to date RWG public and iNet pages.
• Collaboration with other INCOSE working groups, other professional societies, commercial and industry committees, government organizations, and academic institutions.
• INCOSE tutorials and webinars.
• Presentations to INCOSE Chapters.
• Materials and presentations that can be used as part of an organization’s training program.

Products

Please download our Manual and Guides from the INCOSE Store.

Recent INCOSE RWG Products:

RWG YouTube channel

youtube_1384060 Our presentations and meeting are recorded and published on INCOSE RWG - YouTube

Join Requirements Working Group

To participate in our activities, you need to be an INCOSE member. To join our working group follow these steps:

Log into your INCOSE account.
Go to your Profile Page.
On the upper right, click the link for "Join a Working Group".
Find the desired Working Group and click on “Select”. It will then change to say “Selected” with a check mark. You can join as many WG as you are interested in.
Return to your profile page and click on the link for “Communication & Directory Opt Out” and click on each box that applies for your communication preferences. To receive emails from the WGs you have selected, you must “opt in” by checking the box next to “Working Group/Committee Emails”.
Ensure you keep your email of record current. You can change this from your profile page by clicking on the “Update my Profile” link.

2025 Requirements WG Plans

What happened at IW2024

The Saturday session provided an overview of the RWG, including its purpose and how to become a member. It also included a presentation of plans for 2025. In the follow-up session, we discussed future activities for 2025 and gathered feedback from our members on how to improve and deliver the best value to them.
Throughout the IW, the Model-Based Needs and Requirements project presented progress on their work and collected feedback from participants.
The AI4SE (AI4RE) project, a joint initiative between AIWG and RWG, conducted three workshops to present their progress and discuss input from workshop participants.
The Agile Needs and Requirements project gathered feedback from participants on the necessity and content of the Guide to Agile Needs and Requirements.

Regular RWG Activities

Monthly web Meetings, Speakers or Exchange Cafés
Continued CAB Interactions and support
Engagement with other Working Groups (IV&V, Security, others)
Continued use of YouTube for RWG content
Regular use of Viva Engage for collaboration

Planned Activities in 2025

Collaboration with other WGs (e.g., MBSE, Systems of Systems, AI).
Continue RWG Monthly meetings and conducting them at two different times to better serve our worldwide membership.
Continue to add presentations to our YouTube Channel and iNet page.
Develop new whitepapers and guides.
Update the Guide to Needs and Requirements and the Guide to Verification and Validation (to align them with NRM v2)
Continue the existing projects: Guide to Model-based Needs and Requirements, NRM Fundamentals Flip Cards, AI4RE, Guide to Agile Needs and Requirements.
Develop first micro-learnings based on the RWG materials.
Align RWG materials with PDP.

Some of these activities have already started as projects, you can read more about them on the iNet page (members only).

INCOSE RWG Meeting

To be announced soon.

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