Chapter 5

Requirements Management and Communication

England and America are two countries divided by a common language.
—George Bernard Shaw

This chapter concentrates on the management and communication of the output of the requirements gathering effort.

Communicating outputs from the requirements gathering effort is only a portion of the overall communication with which the business analyst is involved. However, it is an aspect of communication that is often overlooked from a planning standpoint. It includes presenting and making the information available, but also validating and gaining acceptance of the requirements package. Even though the same basic information will be communicated to all stakeholders, the communication needs to be customized ...

Get Determining Project Requirements, 2nd Edition now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.