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Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Stakeholders inhibit requirements gathering

Stakeholder issues

Steve McConnell, in his book Rapid Development, details a number of ways users can inhibit requirements gathering:

  • Users don't understand what they want or users don't have a clear idea of their requirements
  • Users won't commit to a set of written requirements
  • Users insist on new requirements after the cost and schedule have been fixed.
  • Communication with users is slow
  • Users often do not participate in reviews or are incapable of doing so.
  • Users are technically unsophisticated
  • Users don't understand the development process.
  • Users don't know about present technology.

This may lead to the situation where user requirements keep changing even when system or product development has been started.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Requirements_engineering

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