We bridge the gap between strategy and code.
IT projects rarely fail because of technology, but almost always because of unclear requirements. HighPots transforms business objectives into a reliable “single source of truth” through methodical requirements engineering.
The 3 Levels of Requirements Engineering
As your specialized partner for requirements engineering, we ensure that requirements are not only “nicely worded,” but also measurable and implementable: for long-term successful IT projects.
Business
Your strategic foundation This level is defined by our customers. We work closely at the interface with your business goals, processes, and needs.
- Business Analytics
- Business Process Management
- Business Analysis
Requirements - HighPot's Core Competence
This is where our full service begins. We translate goals into technical requirements and implement them reliably and in a controlled manner throughout the entire project cycle.
- Requirements Development (Definition, Elicitation, Documentation)
- Requirements validation (tests, consistency checks)
- Requirements management (control, prioritization, tools)
Architecture: Technical feasibility
We work closely with your IT architecture (or provide it ourselves if necessary) to ensure the technical feasibility of the requirements.
- Enterprise Architecture
- System Architecture
- Software Architecture
Where HighPots' Requirements Engineering Begins.
In this phase, we lay the technical and structural foundations for your project. Our services deliberately go beyond simply gathering requirements and take architectural and design aspects into account at an early stage—right through to software architecture. This ensures that requirements are feasible, consistent, and economically viable from the outset, before the actual software development begins.
- Strategic Planning
- Requirements Definition
- Architecture and Implementation
BUSINESS
Strategic level
Business Analytics
Business Process Management
Business Analysis
Business objectives Processes Needs
REQUIREMENTS (ISO/IEC/IEEE 29148)
What must the system do?
Requirements Engineering
Generic term: Requirements Work
Requirements Development
Requirements Definition
Requirements Analysis
Requirements Documentation
Requirements Validation
Requirements Management
Requirements Administration
(Operational maintenance, Toots, Status, Repositories)
Risk Management
Change Management
Realization Management
Validated, stable, prioritized requirements
ARCHITECTURE
How will it be implemented?
Enterprise Architecture
Business – Data – Application – Technology
System Architecture
Software Architecture
In practice, business strategy, business analytics, requirements engineering, and architecture are not strictly separate disciplines. They intertwine, overlap, and often run parallel to each other. HighPots consistently takes this reality into account and combines the individual levels into a consistent, robust overall picture.
Requirements Engineering
for truly long-lasting IT projects
Requirements engineering as a quality filter (ISO/IEC/IEEE 29148) Instead of making assumptions, we create facts. Through standardized processes and continuous validation loops, we filter out ambiguities before they are programmed.
- The benefit to you: We eliminate the risk of costly missteps right from the concept phase.
- The result: crystal-clear scope and a technical “single source of truth” that developers and management alike can rely on.
For over three decades, HighPots has been helping companies derive clear, verifiable, complete, and actionable requirements from business objectives—and guide them safely through the entire project lifecycle. From the initial idea to definition and validation to requirements management in the ongoing project.
HighPots
Requirements engineering with IQ
Maximum project security & reliability
In over 30 years: Not a single project has failed.
Even complex integration projects can be safely commissioned
Complete transparency and control
Customers can see all work live (tickets, changes, test documentation)
Fact-based decisions for you
Highest security & compliance
All systems run on our own servers in Germany.
No US cloud, no offshore hosting
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Why medium-sized companies choose HighPots for their requirements engineering
Reliability - Projects that reach their goals
Reliability – Projects that achieve their goals We are particularly proud of this track record: in over 30 years of business, not a single one of our IT projects with customers has failed.
Whether complex integration projects, multi-system landscapes, or challenging stakeholder structures: we bring your projects to successful commissioning in a predictable and reliable manner.
Transparency – full control instead of flying blind
In our projects with you, we focus on complete transparency: you can see all of our work and thus follow every step. This includes:
• Tickets
• Changes
• Test documentation
• Commits.
No black box, no surprises—and always fact-based decisions.
Renovation expertise—we save what others have given up on
Many customers come to us when projects are already at risk. With its team of experienced employees, HighPots takes care of troubleshooting, stabilization, and recommissioning—including root cause analysis, organizational clarification, and clear realignment of requirements.
Data protection & compliance – as secure as a Swiss vault
Alle Systeme laufen auf eigenen Servern in Deutschland. Wir verzichten bewusst auf den Einsatz von US-Clouds und Offshore-Hosting.
HighPots thus complies with the EU GDPR and Swiss rev DSG—a crucial point for many security-critical industries.
Efficiency & availability – small teams, big impact
Why medium-sized companies choose HighPots for their requirements engineering
- We speak business and technology. Managing directors, product managers, IT managers, and developers understand us equally well.
- We bring structure to complex projects. Chaos becomes clarity, risks become decisions, ideas become robust requirements.
- We work pragmatically—not academically. The goal is always a functioning system, not a 200-page theoretical document.
- We have practical experience with integration projects. Every year, we support projects involving ERP, CRM, booking, payment, and specialized systems.
- We deliver measurable results. We carry out what we plan – in a fully transparent manner.
Requirements Engineering
The three levels for measurable project success
Today, medium-sized companies are under enormous pressure to digitize: business processes are changing faster than ever before, software landscapes are becoming more complex, AI projects and integration projects are becoming more difficult to manage—and at the same time, quality, compliance, and security requirements are increasing.
This is precisely where clear requirements determine the success or failure of a project.
For over three decades, HighPots has been helping companies derive clear, verifiable, complete, and actionable requirements from business objectives—and guide them safely through the entire project lifecycle. From the initial idea to definition and validation to requirements management in the ongoing project.
Business (Strategic level)
Your goals. Our foundation.
What’s going on here? This level defines the strategic direction, the business processes, the problems to be solved, and the desired added value. It is the domain of our customers (managing directors, product managers) who determine the corporate strategy and process sovereignty.
Your advantage (the interface): We act as translators here. We ask the right questions to make your strategic intentions and pain points (business analysis) measurable and ensure a smooth handover to requirements engineering. This way, we ensure that the requirements later contribute to the actual business needs.
Requirements (ISO/IEC/IEEE 29148)
Unser Kerngebiet: Von der Idee zum prüfbaren Anforderungskatalog.
What’s going on here? This is the core area that HighPots covers comprehensively. We transform vague ideas into clear, verifiable, complete, and implementable system requirements—and manage them securely until the project is completed.
Requirements Development
We translate your business goals into precise technical system requirements. The goal is feasibility, not just nice wording.
Steps | HighPot’s performance in detail | Your benefits (structure & pragmatism) |
|---|---|---|
Elicitation & Analysis | Workshops, interviews, shadowing to gather all requirements. | Chaos becomes clarity: We ensure completeness and drastically reduce the risk of rework. |
Documentation | Creation of professional artifacts: requirements/specifications, use cases, user stories, acceptance criteria (Gherkin), process models. | We speak business and technology: your documentation is compatible with agile (Scrum, Kanban) and traditional methods. |
Validation & Testing | Checks for completeness, quality, risk, and technical feasibility (stakeholder reviews, prototyping, traceability). | Wir garantieren Umsetzbarkeit: Anforderungen sind realistisch und technisch geprüft, bevor ein Entwickler startet. |
Requirements Management & Administration
We take over the operational management and maintenance of requirements throughout the entire project to ensure full transparency and control.
Steps | HighPot’s performance in detail | Your benefits (structure & pragmatism) |
|---|---|---|
Management | Versionierung, Priorisierung (MoSCoW, WSJF), Aufwandsabschätzungen, Steuerung des Lebenszyklus (Epics/Stories). | Full control instead of flying blind: you can see the progress at all times and know exactly what will be delivered and when. |
Administration | Operational maintenance, structuring in repositories, tooling (Jira, GitLab, Confluence), and QA assurance for requirements. | A rare added value: We take on the operational burden of requirements management, which is often neglected, and integrate it seamlessly into CI/CD processes. |
Supportive | Risikomanagement und Änderungsmanagement (Change Requests) inkl. Aufwand/Auswirkung-Analyse. | Reliability: Controlled management of changes and risks – for predictable projects. |
Architecture (How is it implemented?)
The bridge between requirements and a functioning system.
What happens here? This level defines the technical implementation of the requirements: the structure, integrations, and technology decisions.
Your advantage (integration skills)
Technical content (HighPots contribution) | Specific benefits for you (technical security) |
|---|---|
Enterprise Architecture (Business–Data–Application–Technology) | We ensure that the solution fits into your long-term corporate strategy. |
System Architecture (integration landscapes, domain interfaces) | We master complex multi-system landscapes and interfaces |
Software Architecture (Technical Architecture for In-House Developments) | Result: A technically feasible blueprint. The software is developed to be secure, maintainable, and future-proof. |
Result: A technically feasible blueprint. | Your risk minimized: No unpleasant surprises during implementation. |
Your path to requirements engineering with HighPots
Understanding your challenge
We analyze your business objectives and system complexity.
Creating structure and predictability
We translate needs into clear, verifiable requirements in accordance with ISO standards.
Guarantee project security
Frequently asked questions (FAQs) about requirements engineering We manage requirements in a controlled and transparent manner until the goal is achieved.
Frequently asked questions (FAQs) about requirements engineering
Answer: Requirements engineering is the systematic process of identifying, documenting, validating, and managing the requirements for a system or software. It serves as the central bridge between vague business objectives and technical implementation. Proper RE ensures that the finished product does exactly what stakeholders really need and avoids costly mistakes and misguided developments.
Answer: Requirements engineering is divided into two main areas according to the internationally applicable standard ISO/IEC/IEEE 29148, which we cover in full at HighPots:
1. Requirements Development:
◦ Elicitation & Analysis: Collecting all requirements through workshops, interviews, etc.
◦ Documentation: Precise written recording (e.g., specifications, user stories).
◦ Validation & Verification: Ensuring that the requirements are complete, consistent, and technically feasible.
2. Requirements Management:
◦ Operational control of requirements throughout the project (prioritization, versioning, handling changes).
◦ Requirements Administration: Technical maintenance and administration in tools such as Jira or GitLab.
Answer: Small and medium-sized businesses in particular are under enormous pressure to digitize and integrate. With the increasing complexity of software and system landscapes (ERP, CRM integrations), clear requirements determine success or failure. Professional RE brings:
• Control: It transforms chaos into clarity and minimizes incalculable risks.
• Efficiency: It prevents expensive development resources from being wasted on incorrect or unclear requirements.
• Quality: It ensures that the end result meets high compliance, security, and quality requirements.
Answer: We offer a rare combination that is geared toward project security:
• Reliability and restructuring expertise: We bring complex projects—including restructuring cases—to completion in a controlled and predictable manner. In over 30 years, no project has failed.
• Pragmatic focus: We translate business and technical language into measurable, actionable requirements. The goal is a functioning system, not a theoretical document.
• Data protection and compliance (DACH-focused): All work takes place on our own servers in Germany. We comply with GDPR and revDSG without compromise, a crucial point for DACH SMEs.