Visualization of requirements engineering data to analyse the current product maturity in the early phase of product development

Abstract This paper provides an approach to analyse product maturity in the early phase of product engineering processes and to derive measures through visualizing an existing description model of objectives. Consequently, stakeholders of the PEP in this phase are identified and their requirements for visualization are derived. Several elements for visualizing aspects of the description model of objectives are presented and therefore allow individual compiled visualizations based on the stakeholders’ needs. The proposed visualizations allow the stakeholder to get an overview of the overall project status, as well as detailed information. Recommendations for methods based on this information can be derived.