Mastering the Requirements Process, Second Edition

10. Writing the Requirements

in which we turn the requirements into written form

Writing the requirements refers to the task of putting together a description of the product from the business point of view. Typically, this description is called a specification, and we use the term here to mean whatever description you are compiling, whether it is written or not. It is appropriate to think of this activity as building a specification: You assemble a specification, one requirement at a time, rather than writing it all at once.

“No matter how brilliantly ideas formed in his mind, or crystallized in his clockworks, his verbal descriptions failed to shine with the same light. His last published work, which outlines the whole history of his unsavory ...