Requirement management in the European Grid Infrastructure ecosystem

The evolution of the European Grid Infrastructure is driven by its users. Therefore capturing and communicating feedback from users to the infrastructure providers, technology providers and service providers is a key goal for the EGI-InSPIRE project and the EGI community as a whole. To support the evolution of the infrastructure, technology and human services of EGI, the EGI.eu organisation has defined a requirement management process and put in place software tools that support this activity within the communities. The process integrates the User Community Board, Operations Management Board and Technology Community Board with user communities, technology providers, national and international projects. Software tools, such as the EGI Requirement Tracking system (RT), RT web gadgets and wiki pages are provided for the EGI stakeholders as well as the general public to interact and monitor this process. The paper provides an overview of the EGI requirement management workflow and the tools and the achievements in gathering, analysing and addressing user community requirements since May 2010, the start of EGI