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In Sec. B4.2 we saw how a set of stakeholder requirements, as contained e.g. in a Requirements Definition Document (RDD), forms the starting point of the design process. The requirements document the interface between the stakeholders and the engineers, and any incompleteness or ambiguity in the requirements is bound to result in a less than satisfactory progression of the project. It is therefore not surprising that the process of defining and controlling requirements is a subject of much interest and activity in the engineering community, and numerous references can be found in [2]. A lively on-line discussion group is the INCOSE Requirements Working Group (see the corresponding web site at www.incose.org/ ).
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Much of the material in this Chapter was presented in Aslaksen, E.W., Requirements Definition - A Plea For a Return To English. In: Proc. Thirteenth Int’l Symposium of INCOSE, Arlington, VA, July 1-3 (2003)
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Aslaksen, E.W. (2013). Requirements Definition [1]. In: The System Concept and Its Application to Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32169-6_10
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