Join us on Tuesday, 22 November 2022, 5:15-6:45pm! We'll share a chapter and membership update -- including info about chapter elections -- followed by a presentation from John Welford of WSP: "Requirements schemas for large multidisciplinary projects"

Whilst international standards and best practice documents provide high-level guidance in the structure and delivery of Requirements Management and Verification and Validation activities, there is still room for considerable variation in the fine details of implementation; this variation often occurs across even relatively similar projects, based on the delivery teams, organisations and individuals involved. Seemingly minor decisions in requirements structure made early in the project lifecycle can have significant impacts in terms of the management and verification effort needed later in the works, particularly where projects are large, and delivery is spread across multiple disciplines. This work discusses several options for structuring requirements schemas, focussed on the delivery of large multidisciplinary infrastructure projects, and in support of a move towards increasingly model-based delivery. It specifically discusses requirements development, requirements allocation, and design verification against requirements. Recent New Zealand rail and infrastructure projects, City Rail Link and the Interislander Resilient Connection, are used as examples to highlight differences in approach and present pros and cons.

Link to recording on YouTube: https://youtu.be/H0k_dHhFXOo