Mastering the Requirements Process, 4th Edition

Part I

Requirements Are the Root of Everything

This is a book about business analysis and requirements discovery. We need to discover the requirements because they underpin everything we build or buy. The requirements for the house or apartment where you live had to be established before the building was erected. There are also requirements for the phone you carry around. These must be carefully discovered before the phone goes into production. A quick online search will reveal dozens of phones that failed in the marketplace. They failed because they did not meet the requirements of the buyers or they had too many features that nobody needed.

Apart from phones, there are countless examples of failed products and failed projects. The lesson from ...