What are useful Software Engineering approaches for legislated requirements?
More projects seem to be coming across my desk that ultimately involve building information systems whose primary requirements come from legislation or regulations. And sometimes even the detailed requirements.
Legislation is sometimes quite a nice Requirement Specification: it is expressed in functional/quality terms rather than internal operations, and is pretty careful in its use of logic. It has been drafted by professionals, and vetted, and thought through. It avoids design and implementation issues almost entirely, so within the great waterfall you have a lot of agility.
Rick Jelliffe
http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2009/09/what-are-useful-software-engin.html
200910 requirements modeling