Questions tagged [requirements]
Use the requirements tag for software development PM questions that involve the subset of documentation related to requirements gathering. For all other documentation questions, use the documentation tag.
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Is estimating a project without basic requirements or user stories a good idea for a fixed cost proposal?
I am currently trying to create an estimate for a software proposal.
In this context, we are requesting a fixed cost amount of funds.
I personally lean toward Agile development practices. I, however,...
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Project charter diagrams
What diagrams should be included in a project charter?
In our standard template there is a section for "Implementation approach and methodology", this is where the flow diagrams normally are. The ...
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What are the alternatives to using user stories for documenting system features?
We are an inventory management system product company. We used, and still use, agile user stories for writing requirements and communicating them to the development team. During the initial stages we ...
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How to automate inclusion of confluence design docs in Requirement traceability report on Jira
If an organization is regulated, it has to pass the audit and show that it has implemented a "requirements traceability". This means it has documented the path from a specific requirement to ...
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Assessing requirements to estimate costs - what order do we assess the property of a requirement?
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Is there an agreed upon PMBOK (or other) set order to evaluate a requirement's properties to get an estimate of what it will cost?
e.g. if you're creating a project estimate (any methodology, ...
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Functional requirements, content requirements, and CUJs
I'm working on a project to build a new documentation site that will host documentation about a service we maintain. We're building this documentation site from scratch and writing the API ...
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RACI Accountability: How to get alignment when 2 teams feel they should be the Accountable?
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I've started on a new team in which there is lack of clarity around roles and responsibilities so I'm leading some RACI definition exercises.
For a few key activities, there are two ...
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What is the usual process of summarizing the specification documents for review and comparision
My engineering team is gearing up for a bidding on a public project, where the specifications document is huge (~500 pages). I would like to break it down clause by clause in a spreadsheet and then ...
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What's the difference between a functional specification and a function model?
What's the difference between a functional specification and a function model? Don't they represent the same thing - what the product will do?
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Acceptance Criteria for user story on interface adapting for devices with different resolutions
I'm working on acceptance criteria for user story on interface adapting for multi-device Web based application
So far I have initial user story:
As a User I want to use the application on different ...
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Functional and performance requirements
I am reading around functional and performance requirements and have found they are associated, where the performance requirement is the 'how well' for the functional requirement.
Does anybody know in ...
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How do I analyze statements of requirements?
I am trying to understand how to create a requirements tree but i'm struggling to understand how to decompose them.
If i have the requirement:
The system shall be able to achieve 50% uptime.
How do ...
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Can I add a picture/diagram in a requirement?
I got the feedback of my first specification, one of the proofreader commented for clarification on one of the requirements (a concept hard to grasp i admit).
Can I add an explanation and a diagram in ...
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What techniques can identify missing requirements?
I am working in a Scrum team developing methods and tools for use inside our organization, although our skillset tends more towards statistics and data science than traditional software development.
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Where and how V&V applies in an agile context?
I joined a company that is leaving the waterfall approach to implement a SAFe (scaled agile framework) one for developing. I'm part of the Quality Assurance team.
Before we had requirements register ...
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How to handle requirements with an unclear scope containing words «all», «everywhere», etc.?
Let's say, customer or product owner creates a task that looks like this:
Change localization Old term to New term in all places in the app for language X.
And development team needs to provide an ...
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Is the client or vendor responsible for writing the BRD?
I am a BA in a company that provides insurance solutions to clients.
We work in a hybrid methodology between waterfall and agile (project divided into Sprints, each Sprint will go as a waterfall life ...
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Is it difficult or time-wasting for developers to adjust page design based on component design changes?
I have been curious about that how much effort developers have to make to adjust components to accommodate changes in UI design. Sometimes I think a design from UX is good and there's no problem for ...
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Lately discovered requirements in Scrum
If a requirement is discovered in the middle of a project or even later, then the cost of implementation of this requirement can be very high.
The Scrum suggets that we should only refine the top PBIs ...
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Requirement Gathering collateral
I am working on a large IT project right now and my company hopes to be part of several similar projects - which would have very similar requirements. We had several issues in requirement gathering ...
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Should we have "general high-level" user stories that spawn out more "more specific detailed lower-level" user stories?
For software user stories,
Does it make sense for user stories to spawn out other user stories?
In other words, Would it make sense for us to document more "general high-level" user stories, ...
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Do you update your Work Breakdown Structure document once requirements have been defined?
Once your business requirements and funtional requirements have been finalized - do you return to your WBS to update the document? From what I see in practice is that this artifact is used early in ...
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should developers have a say in functional requirements
In general most online resources point out that the functional requirements are the responsibility of the business analyst or product manager.
But developers sometimes can be the expert on a product e....
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Is onboarding a non-functional requirement?
I work on a team that manages DevOps tools for a software company. When an engineer from one of our product teams wants to use one of our tools, they clone a series of Jira tickets and work through ...
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Requirements management software for mere mortals
I would like to discuss with you a special case of requirements management. I call it “requirements management for mere mortals”.
I had worked as a project manager in a small web development company....
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May I not use the users stories in Scrum?
It is more convenient for me to describe requirements in technical terms. So is it possible not to use the users stories in Scrum? Will it be Agile still?
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What should be cover in Functional and Non-Functional requirements for a network project?
I am working on providing wireless infrastructure suggestions to a client like what software, hardware and equipment will be required to a client in order for them to set up the wireless ...
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What should be Assumption for a network project?
I am working on providing wireless infrastructure suggestions to a client like what software, hardware and equipment will be required to a client in order for them to set up the wireless ...
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Selecting ( "Cherry picking" ) certain Agile practices as IT team works remotely? Or is it All Or Nothing with Agile?
Due to the covid-19 pandemic, our IT developers and IT managers work from home.
Furthermore, and in different time zones and different locations. Therefore, daily Scrum meetings are Not really ...
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First step in analyzing the problem and coming up with the solution [closed]
I am working on a small case study of the restaurant who is suffering a loss in business of nearly about 70-80% due to COVID-19 situation so the business owner would like to revamp his whole business ...
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Isn't the attractiveness curve in the Kano model depicted wrong?
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The description of "attractive" features talks about a "quick rise" in user satisfaction and "checking investment...beyond a point its overkill" yet the graph doesn't show a quick rise and ...
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How to deal with changing requirements as middle man between customer and provider
I'm the contact point with the customer for project requirements and timeline.
However I outsourced the project to an external software house.
The customer has very changing and vague requirements, ...
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Business requirements and a fixed price contract
A new customer asks us to develop a complex software product (in time and on budget). They provided us with business requirements. These business requirements is a text logically devided into (un-...
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Requirements traceability in agile?
If an organization is regulated, it has pass the audit and show that it has implemented a "requirements traceability". Which means it has documented the path from specific requirement to a code change ...
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Making backlog items independent - how that can be achieved?
Many sources and agile coaches repeat this INVEST mantra, when I stands for "Independent", i.e. defining stories that can be implemented in any order. While it sounds reasonable, I do not believe it ...
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Where are Software features/requirements formally documented in Agile Software Development [duplicate]
An SRS document is appropriate for the traditional software development methodology where you start and finish without iterations as you do in Agile. With Agile, requirements come up, get removed, get ...
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What is requirement gathering method in project management?
Is the requirement gathering method in projects called when a group tries to find a solution for a specific problem by gathering a list of ideas spontaneously contributed by its members?
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Asana and requirements management
I am looking for a way to include requirements management in Asana.
Right now we have a very powerful integration with Instagantt, where projects and their scheduled tasks are in sync with Asana's ...
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Prioritizing both functional and non-functional requirements in Agile
Hi Everyone & Have a Good Day!!
I am doing research on requirement prioritization in Agile. I need to prioritize functional and non-functional requirements by integrating both them simultaneously....
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When requirement changes comes during the sprint, who takes the final decision to include or not
If change request is pushed by the client during the sprint aggressively, who takes the final decision if it needs to be included or not
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How to handle last minute misleading requirement and/or dissatisfaction
I have been discussing the question with a co-worker lately. We saw a project that was on track and almost ahead, and during the meetings the stakeholders were quiet and "satisfied" telling that ...
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Current best metrics related to requirements, design and architecture
So my boss put forth a 'research and find out question' to me:
Are there ANY (absolutely any, no matter the dumbest, but any) metrics for requirements management? Eg. Requirements completeness, ...
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SRS for project with multiple sub modules
I have to write a System Requirements Specification for an upcoming project and it is the first time that I draft such a document. In my case we are creating a smartphone App which will have a basic ...
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Prioritizing requirements in traditional vs. agile projects
I am really new to prioritizing requirements in agile projects. What are the different aspects of prioritizing requirements in a traditional approach vs. an agile one?
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How to avoid recurring questions and contradictions about same or related problems?
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How can we avoid ending up with contradicting requirements raised from the users? We'd appreciate process improvement suggestions that'd fit our limited resources.
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I haven ...
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What do you do next after creating an SRS?
Having gone through the IEEE standard document (IEEE 830-1998) on what a Software Requirements Specification should contain I'm now looking for guidance on the next steps following the creation of an ...
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Is it a testers responsibility to gather requirements from the client & create a scope document?
I am working on project as manual tester with 2 years of experience. In my company there is 1 BA, 1 project manager and 2 marketing guys. However nobody wants to gather requirements from the client; ...
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How to make the correct requirement document with regards to agile & scrum?
I can even take up a course which gives guidelines on how to perfectly write a requirement document which I can attach to a jira epic?
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What's the name for the issue where a customer cannot articulate his/her requirements before seeing the finished software?
Most of you will be familiar with the issue of a customer having vague requirements. Once s/he gets the software, s/he is of course perfectly able to articulate his/her actual requirements, since s/he ...
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A PMI/PMP Requirements Questions [closed]
I have searched and searched online for an answer to my specific question, but haven't found it yet. Can't find the solution on PMI.org either. Maybe you can help.
I have more than 4,500 hours for ...
