ABSTRACT
Learning experience applies to both individuals and organizations. Organizations may also have to experience a shift in culture as they adopt effective requirements writing and reading skills. Many practices and habits may need to change to adopt more effective and useful styles of writing and organizing requirements. This chapter presents the information on requirements to the culmination and synthesis of years of experience working on requirements writing and management. Ideally, requirements are isomorphic with respect to the design they describe. Most important, there is a potential for more effective and more efficient verification when the requirements, the starting point for verification, is approached with the requirements tailored to that purpose. The one exception to this rule is requirements that are written according to the requirement concepts presented in the chapter, since those requirements will be written to be equally appropriate for both design and verification. Requirements are central to the design and verification processes.
