Requirements Practices Every Project Manager Must Know

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Requirements Practices Every Project Manager Must Know

by Walt Washburn

September 26, 2007


Frederick Brooks wrote in his famous “No Silver Bullet” essay (1987):
 
“The hardest single part of building a software system is deciding precisely what to build. No other part of the conceptual work is as difficult as establishing the detailed technical requirements, including all the interfaces to people, to machines, and to other software systems. No other part of the work so cripples the resulting system if done wrong. No other part is more difficult to rectify later.”
 
Requirements management is all about deciding precisely what to build, and how to build it.



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