This is part 4 of the blog series “Communicating Requirements – Effectively”. In part 3, I introduced the basic communications model from a requirements perspective. In this part 4, I discuss the advantages of text-based requirements vs alternate forms of communicating requirements. ——————— Advantages of Text-based Requirements vs. Alternate Forms of Communicating Requirements For some […]
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Why Do We Need Text-based Requirements?
With increasing frequency, people are coming to us with a common refrain: “Why do we need text-based requirements? We all know that, more times than not, the stakeholders don’t know what they want, and this lack of clarity leads to requirements that are often incomplete, incorrect, ambiguous, and constantly changing. It seems like a waste […]
What is the Proper Form of Texted Based Requirements?
The definition of a product requirement is “Something the product must do or a quality that the product must have.” Alternatively, more formally, “A requirement statement is the result of a formal transformation of one or more needs into an agreed-to obligation for an entity to perform some function or possess some quality (within specified […]