CHAPTER 7

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Initial Requirements: Defining the Product

Overview

The previous chapters explained how the project manager collected initial project information: project charter, mission statement, stakeholder expectations, project abstract, and feature catalog. In this next step of progressive elaboration, the business analyst will drill down another level and collect the initial requirements.

This chapter describes general principles of requirements elicitation, a few do’s and don’ts, and gives a recommended practice for the business analyst (BA) to drill down to detailed requirements that the developers and testers can use during the development ...

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