Requirements Management

Requirements management maintains structured business, functional, and non-functional requirements with traceability to designs, tests, and releases. Architecture ensures requirements align with principles and standards while reflecting stakeholder viewpoints. Poor requirements discipline undermines ARB decisions and benefits realization.

In Practice

Larkinized LLC embeds architecture checkpoints in requirements lifecycles for major programs—linking capabilities and NFRs to acceptance criteria. Repository links between requirements and models improve impact analysis. Federated teams adopt shared tooling where possible.

Example

Requirements traceability shows a regulatory retention rule mapped to archive storage standards and test cases.