Requirements Engineering as a scientific discipline has matured over the last decade, the process itself is rather well understood and led to numerous of techniques and models. Lately, the term requirements management has become more important. Requirements Management adds traceability to the requirements engineering process and artefacts. Although requirements management is a fairly well understood discipline, in practice companies still have questions and issues how to deal with requirements. This report describes a method that will guide practitioners through the requirements engineering process and show how to incorporate traceability into that process. It also describes tool support and how to model requirements. A major characteristic of this method is that is tries to not only provides guidelines for dealing with requirements when developing custom software, but also provides guidelines when selecting standard components or how RE works in a service oriented organization.

The structure of this chapter is as follows. Chapter 1.1 introduces BiZZdesign, the company where this research takes place, section 1.2 describes the conceptual design and background information and section 1.3 describes the technical research design.

The second section, the way of thinking, describes the conclusions about the topics under investigation, in our case, Requirements Management and RM in Architecture. The third section of this document, they way of working, describes the process of the RM and provides guidelines for this method. The fourth section, the way of modelling, explains how to model the requirements and finally the last section, way of supporting, describes how this method can be supported through the use of tools....