Graham Stradling at Alcatel-Lucent talks about the importance of effective requirements management in delivering high quality systems to customers. With technologies converging and increased pressure on the telelcommunications industry to provide increased speed and bandwidth to customers, ensuring a reliable, fast efficient system is critical in order to maintain a competitive edge. By managing requirements across the whole lifecycle, Alcatel-Lucent are able to make sure that quality is not compromised and they can successfully meet their customers' needs.