Project Requirements: A Guide to Best Practices

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Coaching the Project’s Requirements Manager and Requirements Analyst

It has been my experience in supporting systems and software engineering projects that when the project manager provides guidance and direction, my efforts as a team member are more effective. “Coaching” may be defined as providing a supportive environment by guiding, advising, assisting, instructing, or prompting employees to enable and empower them to perform needed tasks more effectively. Coaching may also involve understanding someone’s predicament, being a good listener, helping a person see things from a different perspective, assisting someone in understanding the “bigger picture,” or providing resources (an article or a book, for instance) to help. In short, ...