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<p style =  "padding-bottom: 10px; text-align: center"><strong><span style="color: #3f5410;">Challenge: How do I establish<br>efficient and effective Requirements Management (RM)<br>within my large systems engineering project?</span></strong></p>
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	<li>How can I establish RM without driving overhead and building an expensive "time and effort sink"?</li>
	<li>Can RM enhancements provide me benefits beyond simple traceability?</li>
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<p style =  "padding-bottom: 10px; text-align: center"><strong><span style="color: #3f5410;">Our Lean Requirements Management process<br>emphasizes speed, accuracy, and efficiency<br>through innovative automation</span></strong></p>
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	<li>Reduce the lead time involved in converting a System Requirements Document (SRD) into a library of logically linked (Level 3) system requirements, by automatically parsing SRD documents using advanced text searching algorithms.</li>
	<li>Create linked child requirements (Level 4 &amp; 5) through automated scripting to quickly generate a Requirements Traceability Verification Matrix (RTVM)</li>
	<li>Enhance Integration and Test processes by leveraging automation to cascade I&amp;T updates into the RTVM</li>
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<p style =  "margin-top: 20px; text-align: center"><strong><span style="color: #3f5410;">The graphic below depicts 3 common RM pitfalls,<br>comparing Traditional RM against our Lean RM approach</span></strong></p>

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<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://decforge.com/site/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/NASA_Satellite.png"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4175" title="NASA_Satellite" src="http://decforge.com/site/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/NASA_Satellite.png" alt="" width="340" height="263" /></a><strong><span style="color: #3f5410;">Example: NASA NENS (Near Earth Networks Services)</span></strong></p>
<strong>Challenge</strong>: Conduct RM for Space Network communication platform upgrades within compressed schedules, using minimal resources.

<strong>Solution</strong>: Our staff engineered a Lean process, which automated tasks on the critical path to establish and maintain new projects.?This process reduced resource needs by more than 50% when compared to traditional processes.
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<a href="http://thedecisionforge.com/wptest/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/RM_2.png"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4179" title="RM_2" src="http://thedecisionforge.com/wptest/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/RM_2.png" alt="" width="759" height="550" /></a>