Smarter Architecture & Engineering: Game changer for requirements management: A position paper

This paper addresses the challenges of large commercial and government that struggle with requirements understanding, increasing delivery quality and estimating costs. The paper discusses Smarter Architecture & Engineering (SmarterAE) as an approach that applies scrutiny, metrics and analysis to architecture, requirements management and engineering as is historically given to development, testing and operations. SmarterAE facilitates business agility by capturing the essence of the enterprise business into an actionable business architecture. It treats IT architecture, requirements, engineering as key business processes and accelerates acceptance among users, business stakeholders, development, testing and operations. The approach is based on Best Practices and encourages asset reuse and management.