You have been successfully developing rail vehicles, infrastructure structures or software and hardware components for traffic technology for years and have built up special expertise in this area? Now the following assumption: Standards are changing at the EU level, ETCS conformity needs to be ensured or the route frequency needs to be increased through automated train control - in short: the complexity of development projects is increasing. What is the best way to proceed?

Get your projects successfully on track with requirements management

This is where a tried and tested method will help: Tool-based Requirements management helps you to achieve more flexibility in the development process, greater resilience to changing requirements and saves money, as many sources of error can already be considered in advance.

With the help of requirements management, you can ask the right questions in good time. your product or service and when planning the vehicle or structure, for example, how it is to be maintained. Investigate at the same time Right from the start, you will know the parameters that are crucial for maintenance. Additional you will learn how to use well-planned variants, for example different vehicle types, for different operators, efficiently and time-saving. With the right Requirements management, you can also cope with the escalating claim management of some supply chains.

Would you like to position yourself more flexibly, faster and more innovatively in the future?

Together with various customers in rail vehicle development, control and safety technology and infrastructure construction, these processes Target- and demand-oriented design, improvement and implementation in modern requirements management tools. In this way, requirements can be determined, documented, managed and changed in a structured way.

Our goal is always to lay a solid foundation for a comprehensive process landscape through requirements management, so that, ideally, all participants in the project represent and live uniform values, regulations and characteristics. Another goal is to (partially) automate and standardize work steps.

How do we proceed?

• We usually start by recording the process(es) of requirements management as they are currently being practiced.
• The documented processes are optimized on the basis of a detailed process analysis and then configured in the selected requirements management tool.
• We design intensive training courses to increase the quality of requirements in order to create good requirement artifacts. We specifically train the quality criteria and the typesetting template for functional requirements in order to create a feeling for good requirements engineering.
• By means of a short test run (dry run) with the most important stakeholders in the project, further necessary improvements in the new process can be identified.
• As soon as the process is mapped in the tool and has been rated as helpful by the future users, we create the environment. For example, we import existing specifications, we link standard requirements, we set up the management of risk assessments and error occurrence probabilities.
• Only in the sixth step does the official roll-out of the process in the tool take place.
• In addition, we provide handouts (for process diagrams, flow diagrams, role descriptions, etc.) that describe the most important processes, hints and stumbling blocks. Click instructions for the individual work steps, such as linking requirements according to traceability, complete the offer for users. By means of extensive training in the tool and in the new processes, we ensure the ability to work.

Our approach is adapted according to the needs assessment carried out at the beginning depending on the project framework.

Good process and requirements management does not arise on its own, it requires active initiation and support. We will be happy to help you and advise you on upcoming challenges. You are also welcome to visit us at our booth from April 24 to 28 at the REConf in Munich.