D2.2 Initial Requirements Specification

The document describes the methodologies, procedures and results of the process of requirements engineering that has been commenced for COMPOSITION. In the project, requirements engineering is defined as a continuous iterative process, driven by a user-centred design approach, which is based on ISO 9241-210 "Ergonomics of human-system interaction" and on the Volere model recommended by Robertson & Robertson (Robertson et al, 1999). Initial user requirements and derived system requirements elicited from the scenarios and use cases detailed in D2.1 Industrial Use Cases for an Integrated Information Management System. It also lays the foundation for the Innovations expected to materialise from the project work. The main focus is on end user requirements, ensuring that the development work results in solutions that address real-world problems and challenges. Scenarios and use cases have been derived from user workshops that were arranged to determine the context of use for the intra-factory and inter-factory settings, respectively. This early user involvement was pursued to ensure that user requirements are based on actual end users' views and expectations of COMPOSITION services.