What are the best practices for documenting requirements during the gathering process?

Before thinking about the best practices for documenting requirements during the gathering process, it is worth noting why, what, when, where, who and how you can able to gather them. That requires understanding the sources of the documents to be gathered. And by knowing that you can now identify the goals, scope, risks, time, people, clients, stakeholders, systems associated with that process of gathering those information, that requires your customers, users/vendors, standards and regulations, guidelines that are exist within the systems. Through such understanding the context, you can able to gather information that are realistic, effective and efficient or relevant that are aligned with the expectations required by your clients...etc.

During the requirements gathering phases collaborative approaches of information gathering such as workshops, and walkthroughs help effectively touch base on various aspects of the solution under development. A prioritisation exercise should also be included in the session to effectively categorise the requirements using the Moscow approach or similar approaches to give priority to the right set of requirements. It is also important that the non-functional aspects of the solution, such as performance, reliability and security aspects are discussed and concluded to effectively capture the requirements around that.

One thing I found helpful, providing close consultation with the person/organization contributing to the subject/project to process the document it. After close documentation, do a validation of the document processing with all engaged parties contributed to the subject. Give feedback on this document to amend where necessary to compile the final process documentation.

First, a simple answer: Control Engineering is a mathematical discipline for automating control of complex but clearly defined systems. For example, in an automobile there is a cruise control system, an engine temperature control system, a power brake control system, a power steering control system, a climate control system, and many other control systems. Each of these automatic control subsystems require design to meet specified objectives. That is the business of control engineering. The objectives of each control system are usually clear. The principles of control engineering can typically be learned by study of a textbook on that subject. Practical implementation requires (and gives) experience.

There is just no requirements management without attribute assignment. Period. Attributes are responsible for associating data to requirements. They will allow you to: - Make a unique reference to a requirement (ID); - Check who should you speak to if there are any doubts about a requirement (Owner); - Understand the reason why a certain requirement exists (rational); - Check if the requirement was aproved/implemented (status); - Check if there are other requirements that were derived from a given requirement (parent of). And so on. This means that you’ll need at least a spreadsheet to perform requirements management. The ideal is to use a profissional requirements management software.

- Requirement static testing review sessions and Requirement query resolution sessionsbetween BA and QA community a highly effective practices to instil quality in the project requirements from the early stages of the project. - The requirement defects identified should be documented and a systematic approach to fixing and rechecking the issues should be followed to ensure quality is improved

I am quite surprised that the AI actually got this right. So many people say “the requirement was verified” as a synonym for “the requirement was implemented” while it is not the case. The verification of a requirement is done comparing it against the characteristics it should have (the requirement’s requirements) in the same way that a system is verified comparing it against the system’s requirements. Look into ISO/IEC/IEEE 29148 for characteristics of requirements by the way.