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Rapid Development: Taming Wild Software Schedules
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Rapid Development: Taming Wild Software Schedules

by Steve McConnell
July 1996
Intermediate to advanced
680 pages
19h 53m
English
Microsoft Press
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Chapter 32. Requirements Scrubbing

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Requirements Scrubbing is a practice in which a product specification is carefully examined for unnecessary or overly complex requirements, which are then removed. Since product size is the largest contributor to a project's cost and duration, reducing the size of the product produces a commensurately less expensive project and shorter schedule. Requirements Scrubbing can be used on virtually any project.

Efficacy

Potential reduction from nominal schedule:

Very Good

Improvement in progress visibility:

None

Effect on schedule risk:

Decreased Risk

Chance of first-time success:

Very Good

Chance of long-term success:

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