The Agile Enterprise: Building and Running Agile Organizations

© Mario E. Moreira 2017

Mario E. Moreira, The Agile Enterprise, 10.1007/978-1-4842-2391-8_15

15. Establishing Your Requirements Tree

Mario E. Moreira¹ 

(1)Winchester, Massachusetts, USA

To know if the highest-value ideas are being worked on, you need to recognize the parent/child relationships from idea to user stories.

—Mario Moreira

Requirement is a nebulous term. It can mean something large like a corporate strategy or something tiny like a task. People often throw around the word requirement without a strong sense of the type of requirement it refers to or the level it belongs to. Are people talking about a user story, a business requirement, a technical requirement, a strategy, an idea, or a task?

The fact is that companies have all levels of ...