TOWARDS CYCLE-ORIENTED TRACEABILITY IN ENGINEERING CHANGE MANAGEMENT
DS 77: Proceedings of the DESIGN 2014 13th International Design Conference
                        Year: 2014
                        Editor: Marjanovic Dorian, Storga Mario, Pavkovic Neven, Bojcetic Nenad
                        Author: Chucholowski, N.; Wolfenstetter ,T.; Wickel ,M.C.; Krcmar, H.; Lindemann, U.
                        Series: DESIGN
                        Section: DESIGN ORGANISATION AND MANAGEMENT
                        Page(s): 1491-1500
                        
Abstract
Engineering changes and requirement changes strongly interfere with each other. Traceability helps to formalize this interface on a process and organizational level. We propose a data model that includes information elements for different change stages and all related requirement artifacts, solution artifacts or production artifacts. It facilitates the access to necessary information about relations or dependencies between these artifacts. Hence, change effects can easily be estimated and relevant people/information for the decision about a change and its implementation can be identified.
Keywords: engineering change management, requirements management, traceability