What is a Requirements Traceability Matrix? And How to Create One.
In this video, I want to answer the question, what is a Requirements Traceability Matrix and how do you create one?
Requirements Traceability Matrices are most often used in software projects, where they connect user requirements with elements of the final system, and document the test cases that will demonstrate that the system fulfills the requirements.
In a basic Requirements Traceability Matrix, each requirement will have:
• A unique ID or reference number
• A description
• Reference to the stakeholder, user, or customer that needs it
• The needs it meets or opportunities it fulfils
• The deliverables that contribute to meeting the requirement (usually given by WBS ID)
It may also include:
• Any design and quality standards, or specifications
• Indicative use cases
• Development processes
• Tracking of changes and how different product versions meet the requirements
• Testing requirements and scenarios, and maybe the test cases to be built.
Three Types of Traceability Matrix
1. Forward Traceability
2. Backward Traceability Matrix
3. Bidirectional Traceability
It is easy to construct a simple RTM spreadsheet and I have added one to our Project Management Templates Kit: school.onlinepmcourses.com/p/....
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00:00 - What is a Requirements Traceability Matrix?
00:14 - What a Requirements Traceability Matrix is
01:25 - What goes into a basic Requirements Traceability Matrix?
03:13 - Three types of Requirements Traceability Matrix
04:19 - Requirements Traceability Tools
05:18 - Summing Up
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How do you know what your project needs to build to meet the requirements of users? And, once built, how will you check that your new system fulfills all the users' requirements? The answer, my friends, is a Requirements Traceability Matrix.
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RTMs are one of those things that make sense to people who've done project management courses, but none to anyone sensible who has practical experience of software development.
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4 ай бұрын
Well, this video is for Project Managers.
Has anyone used this technique for Construction or MTCE projects?
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5 ай бұрын
That's a great question and I don't know the answer!
It would be good if you could illustrate the tracibility matrix with a real example.
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11 ай бұрын
Getting real examples is tricky for all sorts of reasons. But, I hear you.
I am in the process of learning how to go about creating an RTM, but this video doesn't provide any concrete examples on how the matrix is supposed to be created. I don't think this video helped me that much, besides giving me definitions for things I still don't know how to do.
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4 ай бұрын
I'm sorry to hear that.