Requirements Management Plan Template

A requirements management plan template is designed to promote consistent analysis, documentation and management of the project requirements. Because it’s a template, it prompts the project planner to provide, describe and discuss the same critical information.

The term “requirements” refers to those conditions or capabilities that must be present in a product, a service or a result to satisfy a contractual obligation or other formally imposed specification. Hence, requirements management is paramount to project success.

The requirement management plan is a subsidiary plan of the project management plan. Components of the requirement management plan can describe how the requirements are planned, tracked and reported. They can also provide a description of the configuration management activities, the processes for categorizing and prioritizing the requirements, the product metrics and the desired traceability structure.

Like all subsidiary management plans, the requirements management plan must be tailored to fit the needs of each project. The template plan below is no different, that’s why it’s completely editable.

The requirements management plan is created by the project manager. As with most planning documents, input is gathered from others.

The inputs to developing the requirements management plan include the project management plan, the project charter, enterprise environmental factors and organizational process assets.

The requirements management plan is used to plan the management of the project requirements. The template below is based on the processes set forth in PMBOK® Guide, 5th Edition. This means it provides for planning, analyzing, categorizing, prioritizing, quantifying, tracking and reporting the project requirements.