April 2023
Intermediate to advanced
208 pages
5h 18m
English
book
Software Requirements Essentials: Core Practices for Successful Business Analysis
by Karl Wiegers, Candase Hokanson
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Chapter 6
Requirements Validation
By this point in the requirements development process, you understand the project’s business objectives. You’ve elicited requirements for some portion of the solution from various stakeholders, analyzed them, and recorded those requirements in appropriate forms. The team is now ready to begin development on that portion, right? Maybe.
Yes, you have some requirements—but how do you know they’re the right requirements? Are you confident they’ll meet the users’ goals and address the business situation that led to launching the initiative in the first place? You could have a set of beautifully written and modeled requirements that appear to be crystal clear, complete, and unambiguous—and yet they could still be ...