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# Requirements Management

### Overview

Requirements Management controls how scope is captured, reviewed, changed, and reported. A consistent lifecycle reduces rework and improves auditability.

### Key Concepts

* **Lifecycle**: status and review stages for requirements
* **Acceptance criteria**: objective conditions for validation
* **Traceability**: links to tasks, tests, and artifacts
* **Change control**: modification and rejection patterns that preserve context

### How It’s Used

Use this structure for weekly scope reviews. Use it for approval workflows and change control.

### Benefits

* Reduced rework from unclear scope
* Cleaner approvals through standardized review states
* Faster impact analysis through traceability

### Setup Steps

{% stepper %}
{% step %}

### Define statuses and meanings

Standardize requirement statuses across Projects. Use a small set of review states for approvals.
{% endstep %}

{% step %}

### Standardize review views

Create shared Save Views for repeatable scope reviews.

* [Requirements View](/transformations/requirements-view.md)
  {% endstep %}

{% step %}

### Define modification and rejection patterns

Use controlled change patterns to preserve context and downstream alignment.

* [Requirements Modification](/transformations/requirements-modification.md)
* [Requirements Rejection](/transformations/requirements-rejection.md)
  {% endstep %}
  {% endstepper %}

### Best Practices

* Require acceptance criteria for approval-ready requirements.
* Link tasks and tests to requirements early.
* Use Segments and Processes for reporting consistency.

### Summary

Requirements Management standardizes scope lifecycle and change control. Save Views and traceability support repeatable review and governance.

Related:

* [Requirements](/transformations/requirements.md)
* [Create and Assign Tasks](/transformations/create-and-assign-tasks.md)
* [Linking Tests to Requirements](/transformations/linking-tests-to-requirements.md)


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