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When I first started managing projects, I treated requirements as an input to the project--they would magically appear and tell me what the scope of my project was. It didn’t take me long to figure out that I was taking the wrong approach, that requirements gathering was actually an integral part in the execution of the project. But I am still surprised by how many organizations are unable to come up with good requirements.
In this article, I want to go back to requirements basics and examine how the requirements tie the organizational needs into the deliverables of the project--and how we then go on to validate those requirements.
From needs to deliverables--via requirements All projects begin with a need, or maybe more accurately a set of needs--things that the organization is looking to change. The reason may be competitive, operational, financial, regulatory or any number of things, but we always start with a basic need. Please login/register to read the entire article.
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