Requirements Management Archive

  • What’s Wrong with Requirements

    What’s Wrong with Requirements

    I 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...

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  • Eight Tips for Scope Creep

    Eight Tips for Scope Creep

    There’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...

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  • Bringing Common Sense to Requirements

    Bringing Common Sense to Requirements

    Common 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...

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