ADDING AN EFFECTIVE EDGE TO YOUR SYSTEM CONTROLS

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It’s a recognised statistic that up to 60% of errors originate in the requirement and analysis activities, due to not accurately specifying what is needed for a successful product. There is clearly a temptation to move quickly into product development in an attempt to save time to market. The cost of fixing the problems down the line far outweighs the cost of producing a requirement specification that ensures a product is produced that meets the needs of the business and its customers.

We will work closely with your management and engineering teams, as well as other stakeholders to establish the requirements thoroughly. This ensures that the end product will meet expectations.

The requirements gathering process overlaps with system analysis and depending on your needs, Polarity Automation can help you in both these areas.

Polarity Automation adopts a flexible approach to requirement engineering, to take into account factors such as:

- Company culture

- Differing needs and feelings of all the stakeholders

- Necessity to fit in with your existing processes

- Business objectives

- Re-use of any existing requirements

- Firmness or clarity of requirements

- Product scope

Methods we employ to capture requirements can include:

- Stakeholder identification

- Conducting stakeholder interviews

- Running requirements workshops for cross functional groups

- Prototyping (simulation of requirements)

- Scenario modelling

- Use case workshops

- Quality Gateway (requirement acceptance process)

Requirements can also be captured from external documents, e.g. Word and Excel, and engineered to remove ambiguity, contradiction, duplication etc.

We will also ensure that the requirements are atomic, measurable, testable, and under revision control.