ABSTRACT
Requirements management involves identifying, documenting, and tracking system requirements from inception through delivery. G. Reinhart and J. F. Meis discuss how certain requirements management approaches adapted from production engineering can be used to improve the execution of 'simultaneous engineering', that is, the parallelization of unequal activities that are generally conducted sequentially. Configuration management involves the identification, tracking, and control of important artifacts of the system. Each stakeholder has a different requirements agenda. The most celebrated consensus building technique in systems engineering is the Wideband Delphi technique. Mathematician Blaise Pascal is well known for various achievements including Pascal's Triangle (a convenient way to find binomial coefficients) and work in probability. Requirements engineering is one of the most collaboration-intensive activities in software development. Global and even onshore outsourcing presents all kinds of challenges to the requirements engineering endeavor. Mushroom management is a situation in which management fails to communicate effectively with staff.
