The Requirements Management System (RMS) database is the business management system that manages and traces the relationships between requirements, policies and supporting programs, procedures, processes, etc. It serves several functions:
- Tracks and reports the relationships between institutional requirements and institutional documents,
- Enables data changes via a process workflow that is based on a formal Requirements Management process, and
- Tracks completion of Berkeley Lab’s Contract 31 deliverables.
The RMS database has been designed to track not only version changes but also to capture all related activities regarding requirements and institutional documents. Examples of such activities include records of decision, instances of discussions, risk/impact analyses and implementation plans for the given change. Hence, the RMS retains not only the version history, but also the reasoning for the change and the impact of the change. Users can search and find a full history of changes for any requirement or document, and generate reports that illustrate the flow-down from Contract 31 requirements to policies and supporting documents. [Note: “history” starts approximately 2012.]
The RMS is accessible to persons with Berkeley Lab LDAP permissions.
