Measurements

Relationships
Main Description

This set of guidelines describes the essential measures specific to the Requirement Management practice. These measures are in-process and post-delivery measures, and are intended to be applicable to all levels of process maturity. The core measurements are a minimum set of measurements that are considered best practices.

Core Measurements

  • High-Level Requirement Stability: to monitor requirements churn.
  • Requirement Defect Count: to measure the effectiveness of Requirement Management practice adoption. If a high percentage of defects are attributed to the Requirement Mangement discipline, then more skills development or increased formality may be necessary.
  • Untraced Requirements: to identifies degree of low-level requirements that are not substantiated by the presence of appproved high-level requirements.

Supplementary Measurements