Requirements engineering is about more than just analyzing and documenting requirements. It is an important part of systems engineering. It's a multidisciplinary activity that affects and broadens the product development process, and it's essential if your organization deals with:

• Complex products.
  
• Globally distributed teams.
  
• Conformance with standards and regulations.
  
• Accelerated development cycles that provide little time to fix errors.
  
• Experienced staff who are leaving or retiring and taking their experience with them.
  
• Shrinking development budgets and diminishing resources.
  
• Constantly changing customer and marketplace requirements.
  

Companies that successfully introduce a new requirements engineering process not only change their process and technology, but also change their thinking. On top of improving your requirements management and analysis practices, this step-by-step guide can help you accelerate change and process acceptance across your organization.