Mastering the Requirements Process, 4th Edition

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Your Process

Anarchy might be fun, but anarchists never build anything useful. Can you imagine anarchists building the pyramids in Egypt? “Listen up, guys. We’ve got these blocks of stone. What do you think we can do with them?” No, the Egyptians had a process that enabled them to put up structures that are still standing 4,000 years later. Cut to today. Would you happily catch the elevator to the 32nd floor if you thought for one moment that the construction company had randomly thrown together some steel, glass, and concrete, and kept doing that until it looked like an office building?

To do anything meaningful, we usually need a number of people. And as soon as you have more than one person involved in your requirements and development ...