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Maintain Requirements
Requirements Life Cycle Management
5.2.3 Inputs
In order to maximize the benefits of maintaining and reusing requirements, the
requirements should be:
• consistently represented,
• reviewed and approved for maintenance using a standardized process that
defines proper access rights and ensures quality, and
• easily accessible and understandable.
• Requirements: include goals, objectives, business requirements, stakeholder
requirements, solution requirements, and transition requirements. These should
be maintained throughout their life cycle.
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• Designs: can be maintained throughout their life cycle, as needed.
Figure 5.2.1: Maintain Requirements Input/Output Diagram
Guidelines and Tools
Information Management
Approach
Requirements
Input
5.2
Maintain Requirements
5.2
Requirements
(maintained)
Output
Designs
5.2
Designs
(maintained)
5.2.4 Elements
.1 Maintain Requirements
Requirements are maintained so that they remain correct and current after an
approved change. Business analysts are responsible for conducting maintenance
to ensure this level of accuracy is retained. For requirements to be properly
maintained they must be clearly named and defined, and easily available to
stakeholders.
Business analysts also maintain the relationships among requirements, sets of
requirements, and associated business analysis information to ensure the context
and original intent of the requirement is preserved. Repositories with accepted
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