Daily challenges in requirements engineering

Summary form only given. Requirements engineering is becoming an increasingly more important aspect on every program. We present many challenges that we are faced with in a daily basis. Challenges such as requirements analysis, traceability, change management, system of systems interoperability, metrics, geographically dispersed engineering teams are just some of the many we must deal with. As requirements engineers we provide from a practitioners perspective real life examples of many of these challenges. We provide descriptions as to how we have personally solved some of these problems and provide examples when they are supportive of the ideas we are trying to express. Finally we wrap things up with a conclusion and some recommendations with the hopes of helping others face with similar problems.