Managing Software Requirements: A Unified Approach

Chapter 18. The Champion

Key Points

• The product champion maintains the project vision.

• Every project needs an individual champion or a small champion team to advocate for the product.

• In software product environments, the product champion will often come from marketing.

In Chapter 1, we analyzed challenged projects and discovered a variety of root causes, with requirements management being near the top of the list. In Chapter 17, we defined the Vision document as a seminal document in a complicated software lifecycle; this document directly addresses the requirements challenge and is the one document you can look to, at any time, to see what the product, application, or system is and is not going to do. In total, the Vision document represents the ...