Smarter requirements management in large scale construction projects at Trafikverket

Roland Johansson, COO at Adocus

Introduction

• Extending a SW–tool into the construction industry

• The Swedish Transport Administration (Trafikverket) constantly runs very large projects with costs in the billions and time schedules in years.

• The projects are very complex with many involved contractors, and with high expectations on quality and timely execution.

• Requirements management fundamentals are common

Case

• Rational Requirements Composer (RRC) at the Swedish Transport Administration (Trafikverket)

• RRC is the requirements management component of CLM, the Collaborative Lifecycle Management solution on the Jazz platform

• Adopted for a non IT-environment• Requirements on road-building, tunnels, railroads and

bridges.

• Licenses with a capacity for 150 users plus 150 reviewers

• IBM Global Finance (IGF) engaged to match customer costs with user ramp-up

• Ramp-up started in May 2013 and ends in March 2014.

Trafikverket

• Plans, builds and maintains roads and railroads• 100 000 km roads• 12 000 km railroads

• 6 regions, 6500 employees• Headquarters in Borlänge• Offices in Luleå, Gävle, Stockholm, Eskilstuna, Gothenburg and

Kristianstad.

• Very large projects• Stockholm Bypass: 28 bn SEK• West Link, Gothenburg: 20 bn SEK• Stockholm City Line: 17 bn SEK

• Complex projects• Influenced by regulations and environmental concerns• Many contractors involved• Runs for several years

Usage

• Requirements for construction• Regulatory• Environmental Impact• Best Practices

• Requirements fulfillment• Calculations• Dimensioning• Best Practices

• Deviations• Environmental Impact• Best Practices

• Controls• Plans• Simulations• Inspections

VModel

Regulations

Plans

Controls

System Docs

Controls

ProjectRequirements

Construction Docs

Controls

Needs

• Common tool– Large projects - Stockholm Bypass– Small projects – a single bus stop

• Tracing– Between project stages– Between project levels– Between requirements

• Support– Common methods– Collaboration– Version control– Automated metrics

Satisfying Needs

• Common tool– Large projects - Stockholm Bypass– Small projects – a single bus stop

• Tracing– Between project stages– Between project levels– Between requirements

• Support– Common methods– Collaboration– Version control– Automated metrics

• The five imperatives of CLM1. Real Time Planning

2. Life Cycle Traceability• Tracing• Version control• Built-in approval method• Reusing requirements makes it easy to create similar

projects• Regulations, requirements and best practices are easy

shared between projects

3. In Context Collaboration• Built-n collaboration• Built-in review method• Easy to invite participants

4. Continuous Improvement• Common methods• Common templates• Easy to modify templates

5. Predictability with Reporting• Automated metrics

Usage Adaptation

• Highlights:– Use their terminology– Use the RRC-component of CLM– RRDI added for online reports– RPE for creating reports to RRDG– Links with an obvious purpose– Attributes to carry specific information

• Two missing features– Limiting read access within a project– Role based customization of the UI

Krav

Krav-uppfyllnad

Kontroll

(Requirement)

(Requirementfulfillment)

(Control)

Uppfylls av(Fulfilled by)

Uppfyller(Fulfills)

Kontrollerar(Verifies)

Kontrollerad av(Verified by)

Future Ideas

• Input requirements– Legal requirements– Regulations– Best Practices– Stakeholders requirements

• Smart Cloud– Test– Staging

Thank you!

Adocus

• IBM Rational Experts– 15+ years experience

• Focusing on the early phases– Product management– Requirements management– Modeling

• Services– Process adaptation and deployment– Training and mentoring– Tools configuration and integration

• Products– MetaModelAgent, a plug-in for Rational Software Architect

Visit us at www.adocus.com

Background

• The Swedish Transport Administration constantly runs very large projects with costs in the billions and time schedules in years.

• They are very complex projects with many involved contractors, projects with high expectations on quality and timely execution.

• Some current projects are:– Stockholm Bypass

(Förbifart Stockholm, a 21 km bypass with 18 km in tunnels, estimated cost 28 bn SEK),– Stockholm City Line

(Citybanan, 6 km long commuter train tunnel, estimated cost 17 bn SEK.)– West Link in central Gothenburg

(Västlänken, 8 km long with 6 km in tunnels, estimated cost 20 bn SEK).

• Adocus and IBM supported the Administration in solving the need to manage the requirements, with all its details for each activity, contractor and subproject - by extending the use of smart requirements management from the mundane domain of IT development to the complex world of major infrastructure projects, having the word infrastructure regaining its original meaning.