Communicating Requirements Status

Tracking and monitoring data is only useful if it actually reaches the people who need it — this task is about proactively communicating requirements status, issues, conflicts, changes, and risks to the project manager and other stakeholders, rather than leaving that information sitting in a tool nobody checks. A well-maintained traceability artifact that nobody is told to look at provides little real value.

The communication itself should be tailored to the audience, much like Domain I's stakeholder communication task — a project manager likely needs a different level of detail about requirements status than an executive sponsor does, even though both are legitimate audiences for this same underlying data.

Study focus: a scenario where a serious requirements risk was accurately logged in the tracking tool but never actually surfaced to the project manager, who finds out too late, is testing a communication failure, not a tracking failure.