A refinement of the customer requirements into the developers' language, making implicit requirements into explicit derived requirements. (See “product-component requirements” and “derived requirements.”) The developer uses the product requirements to guide the design and building of the product.

1. This glossary is from Appendix C of Technical Report CMU/SEI-2002-TR-004.
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