NSI Requirements Definition for Lotteries 1.0
Conformance Statement

Note to submitter: This form contains a series of questions that need to be answered. Please complete ALL the fields in the questionnaire below to produce a conformance statement for your Requirements Definition process. Your completed form should be submitted to the Certification and Verification Authority when you register for verification. Please ensure that you use the current version of the questionnaire (available on the certification/verification web site) for your submission. See the Guide to the NSI Certification and Verification Program and Guide Supplements for more information. Please note that all information in this conformance statement will appear on the public Register of verified practices, except for the name of the Business Practice Manager. Revision History showing the changes in this Conformance Statement from prior versions is contained at the end of this document.

1. Submitter Information

Enter the name of the author of this Conformance Statement.

Organization: DC Lottery

Author: Arnissa Berry

2. Business Practice Information

Business Practice Location

This is the Business Practice Location in which requirements definition is carried out under the leadership of the Business Practice Manager, and in which the documented processes and procedures for requirements definition are accessible. The Business Practice Location is where the on-site assessments are performed.

Business Practice Location: 2235 Shannon Place, S.E. Washington, D.C. 20020

Business Practice Management

This is the Business Practice Manager within your organization who has overall responsibility for managing the requirements definition process on a day-to-day basis and ensuring that it is carried out in accordance with the documented processes and procedures.

Business Practice Manager:

Name: Arnissa Berry

Title: Program Manager

3. Best Practice Implementation

Your Organization is required to implement all of the "Should" requirements in which the Practitioner is identified as "Lottery" in Appendix A of the Requirements Definition Best Practice, or provide rationale for why the recommendation is not implemented. If there are any "Should" requirements that your Business Practice does not support at all or does not support as a normal course of business for each product you produce, please identify each such requirement and your rationale for why your organization believes the requirement is not applicable or required.

Requirement Number is the identifying number and Requirement is the actual text of the requirement, as specified in Appendix A, Requirements Checklist.

Requirement Number

Requirement

Rationale

Sign-off approval on the Requirements Specification should occur prior to the start of the Development Process.

D.C. didn't meet the requirement on account of not believing the requirement is applicable or required. They seem to have had a hole in their practice. Mike Duff has spoken with Gordon and Arnissa about this. Our current plan is to give D.C. six months to prove they've implemented the changes before awarding the Verification. They're going to go down as a Case 3: 'Certification/Verification Subject to Satisfactory Completion of Corrective Actions'

The Requirements Specification should address portability considerations.

4. Characterization of the Lottery's Requirements Definition Business Practice

This section identifies the optional requirements associated with the Lottery's Requirements Definition process. Your Organization is not required to provide support for these optional requirements, but you are required to indicate which ones you support and in what capacity. Please answer each question below and provide supporting text, as appropriate.

Project Planning

Question 1: Does your organization define acceptance criteria for each phase of a project?

Response:

Yes, always

Yes, sometimes

Yes, if requested to do so by a vendor

No

If you selected "Yes, sometimes", please explain the situations in which your organization might define acceptance criteria by phase:

Rationale:

Defining acceptance criteria in the project plan for each specific phase of a project is optional. If this level of acceptance criteria is defined, then definition should be a joint effort of the lottery and vendor and both the vendor and lottery should should sign-off at the end of each phase of the project indicating that acceptance criteria have been met.

Reference:

Quality Assurance of Product Development in the Lottery Industry: Requirements Definition, April 2004 - Section 4.3.4.1, Best Practice Requirements for Project Planning.