Project Management Step by Step: How to Plan and Manage a Highly Successful Project

Collecting requirements

For some projects, once you know what the deliverables are, you have all the information you need to develop them. For others, you need a series of more detailed information about the deliverables that together precisely specify the deliverables. This more detailed information is called requirements, and the complete collection of requirements is called the requirements catalogue or requirements specification. For example, in the office re-fit case study used in Chapters 2, 3 and 4, the project scope included putting new furniture into the office, such as desks and chairs. This was enough information to allow the project to be planned and managed. However, there could be some very specific additional detailed information, ...