Collaborative Working in Requirements Management for a System of Systems

Speaker: Amer Saeed

29th October 2003 , 3pm , Room 519 Claremont Tower

Abstract

The development of a fifth terminal (T5) at Heathrow is part of BAA's strategy for modernising and improving the airport to meet aviation demand and customer needs whilst minimising impact on the environment. The development of systems to support Baggage Handling, CCTV, Lifts, Energy Services etc and their integration to a system of systems will be essential to the efficient operation of T5.

Traditionally suppliers of the individual systems have worked at their own sites in accordance with company practices. However, for the T5 project, suppliers are co-located and collaboration is facilitated through a common IT infrastructure and project procedures. T5 Suppliers have been recruited at the project definition stage, with a general scope of work and fixed budget, with the objective to precisely define their supply and its interfaces to the T5 Environment. For Project Definition, T5 suppliers use a systematic approach to requirements development and management supported by DOORS. The approach:

• allows flexibility in the production of requirements documents,
• leads to a standard set of requirements documents, through the use of common document templates and statement level templates,
• supports collaboration during requirements elicitation through viewpoint documents,
• checks the quality of the actual requirements process followed by the suppliers and the requirements documents produced using an evidence-based assurance approach.