Requirements Management Archive
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What’s Wrong with Requirements
Posted on June 18, 2008 | 2 CommentsI have, after several months of leading developers, come to a realization: requirements are not enough. How many of you have heard a developer say this at one point or another: “Why on earth would they want it to do that?” Modern requirements gathering has become... -
Eight Tips for Scope Creep
Posted on March 3, 2008 | No CommentsThere’s an interesting article over on Six Revisions on Feature Creep. It’s worth a read if you’re a project manager, because almost everything there translates directly to scope creep for projects. It talks about some basic things: 1. Scope creep will happen. It’s natural and not the... -
Bringing Common Sense to Requirements
Posted on November 21, 2007 | No CommentsCommon sense and requirements, for better or worse, do not always go together. People get literal-minded, especially on larger projects and in huge organizations. I have seen a project get held up for weeks before because the business requirements said “Response times must be under...