Allocate the requirements for each product component.

Refer to the Technical Solution process area for more information about allocation of requirements to products and product components. This specific practice provides information for defining the allocation of requirements but must interact with the specific practices in the Technical Solution process area to establish solutions to which the requirements are allocated.

The requirements for product components of the defined solution include allocation of product performance; design constraints; and fit, form, and function to meet requirements and facilitate production. In cases where a higher level requirement specifies performance that will be the responsibility of two or more product components, the performance must be partitioned for unique allocation to each product component as a derived requirement.

Typical Work Products

1.    Requirement allocation sheets

2.    Provisional requirement allocations

3.    Design constraints

4.    Derived requirements

5.    Relationships among derived requirements

Subpractices

1.    Allocate requirements to functions.

2.    Allocate requirements to product components.

3.    Allocate design constraints to product components.

4.    Document relationships among allocated requirements.

Relationships include dependencies in which a change in one requirement may affect other requirements.