Succeeding with Agile

Progressively Refine Requirements

When starting a new project, the struggles of the previous project are fresh in our minds. In reflecting on those struggles, a common conclusion is that if we’d only tried harder or done more of something, we might have done better. Although this may sometimes be true, in the case of requirements-gathering it is often not. No matter how long or how hard we work at the start of the project to identify all desired features, we cannot succeed. There are always some things that users and developers cannot be expected to think of until they start to see the system take shape.