The clear benefits of agile development—better global collaboration, incremental delivery, early error detection and the elimination of unnecessary work—have made it the default approach for many teams. Agile methods are helping engineering teams streamline workflows to stay focused on the work that delivers real business value.

This smartpaper argues that requirements management can bring significant value to agile development in regulated IT and complex product development projects, and sets out the characteristics of an effective requirements management approach in an agile environment.