A SRR is one of a
number of such reviews conducted periodically during Conceptual Design to
verify and approve sets of system-level requirements as they are
developed. The main purpose of each SRR is to ensure
that the design is progressing in the correct direction since
Conceptual Design starts with a single sentence (the need statement)
and ends in hundreds of pages of requirement statements (the
System Specification) . Each SRR therefore
gives confidence in the design process through the progressive monitoring
and approval of the system-level requirements that are developed between
the User Requirements Document and the Functional Baseline.
A System Requirements
Review may only involve customer personnel if the
Conceptual design is to being conducted in-house, but can also
involve contractors to ensure a better mutual understanding.
The number of
SRRs will depend on the size and complexity
of the project, although even a very small project will
have at least one SRR.
A System
Requirements Review may or may not be considered
a formal review.
Each SRR also reviews
the design activities, design artefacts, trade-off analysis, and so on.
Each review will also review other information such as manufacturing
plans, design schedules, personnel plans, and so on.
Other topics in our resources on Systems Engineering related to SRR include: