Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sun 24th Jul 2005 21:07 UTC
Every project requires investments in terms of time, money, and other resources. This chapter will help you analyze the requirements of your project at hand, and decide how to proceed in light of the investments required to make it work.
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You would be surprised how many projects are done without requirements or just BAD requiremnts.
Been there. Done that. Had the drag-out-smack-down 'fights'. Been kicked off of projects because people don't like following a process of some sort -- and I was glad to be booted off.
At the end of the day, most hostile contracts or projects are hostile because;
* Nobody wrote down the requirements or they did not take them seriously.
* Roles and responsibilites were not defined at the customer/contractor or team level.
* Bad will built up and now neither 'side' can agree on anything...let alone what a requirements document covers.
How can people be expected to create testcaes later on without well-defined requirements?
Test? What's that? :/
Also a MS Word Doc does not count as requirements! You cannot go through a Word doc and say implement this paragraph but not this sentence!
I've attempted to get the current project I'm on off of this model. No go. Instead, we now have an expensive requirements management system that is ... MS Word Doc based.
The only saving grace: The system can (???) create a requirements document in multiple formats (including MS Word Doc) from the requirements database. Well, that's what the salepeople said. We have to use a specific tool, though, per edict of the customer...even though they will never be dealing with anything but MS Word Doc files. (Hey, Doc is superior to faxes...and yes, I know how pitiful that is.)