When you need it
Use this register when the project must track requirements from contracts, users, technical documents, or other valid sources and connect each statement with its rationale, acceptance criterion, owner, status, and changes.
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Project Requirements Register
Capture and control project requirements from business, stakeholder, technical and regulatory sources.
How to use this templateThis Excel template contains prepared working sheets and completion notes on a separate sheet. Enter your project data and review the completed workbook before use.
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Learning
How to use this template
What it helps you decide
It preserves the source and decision history of requirements, helping designers and reviewers distinguish mandatory statements from preferences and verify whether delivered outputs address the correct requirement version and acceptance basis.
How to complete it
- Assign Requirement ID and Category / source type, then write Requirement statement and Source / locator / revision using the actual source wording and reference.
- Record Rationale / objective and Priority / basis, then define Acceptance criterion sufficiently clearly for the relevant output or evidence to be assessed by reviewers.
- Assign Owner and maintain Status and Change / decision reference, retaining unresolved conflicts and source revisions until the responsible authority records a supported decision.
Who prepares and reviews it
A requirements coordinator or design lead typically maintains the register with client users, engineering, quality, and contract contributors. Assigned owners resolve details, while authorized project roles approve priorities, baselines, and changes within their actual remit.
A mistake to avoid
Deleting an inconvenient requirement instead of recording an authorized change breaks traceability and can make an apparent compliance position depend on an undocumented scope reduction.
Illustrative example
Illustrative example: a chilled-water system has a client performance requirement that differs from a vendor assumption. The register preserves the client source, acceptance criterion, and responsible engineer. The conflict is resolved through a recorded decision before equipment selection, preventing the vendor assumption from silently replacing the requirement.
Document contents
- Requirement ID
- Category / source type
- Requirement statement
- Source / locator / revision
- Rationale / objective
- Priority / basis
- Acceptance criterion
- Owner
- Status
- Change / decision reference
Required inputs
- Project name, location, company, document number and revision
- Actual project scope, source records and responsible roles
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