Resolving conflict in system requirements

Abstract

This study builds upon traditional systems engineering methods: analyzing system requirements, performing functional allocation, exercising the tradeoff issues, synthesizing requirements, and verifying that they are achievable. The importance of interactions between requirements and their corresponding implementations is emphasized. Understanding and documenting these interactions is proposed as an important step in the system design process. Graphic and mathematical analysis methods applied in the resolution of conflicts are introduced. The impact and importance of technology trends in system design, tradeoff analysis, and product planning are discussed.<>