CHAPTER 2

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Introduction to Requirements

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.

—Thomas Edison, American Inventor and Businessman

If there is anything worse than doing a simple task without fully understanding the requirements for success, it is doing a complex one. It happens every day, computer projects are created with only a shimmer of an idea of what the end goal is. Sometimes this is really interesting, and leads you to something ...

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