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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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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Is a Requirements Traceability Matrix a validation or specification technique?
I am quite confused. Is a Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) a requirements validation technique or a requirements specification technique?
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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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Comprehensive single requirement docs vs. multiple atomic ones
First of all, let me make it clear that I am a software developer and that I am writing this ISO help with my desire to agile-ize my project management and get a buy-in for changing some general ...
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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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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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What is the best way to discover, prioritize, and iteratively deploy business intelligence solutions?
BACKGROUND: Have a client that has terabytes of transactional data and they would like to begin leveraging the data they have, but beyond the knowledge it's possible, and the belief that an analytic ...
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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 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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PMP-ers: How does PMI recommend tracking of requirements through to project deliverables?
Reading through PMI's PMBOK and Rita's exam prep guide this morning, I'm failing to see if and how they advocate requirements to be tracked through in project deliverables. How does a stakeholder know ...
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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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How to deal with huge data selection requirement
I would like to discuss about a business requirement from the client. The requirement is to allow the user to select a huge amount of data.
Let me try to explain with an example.
As a portfolio ...
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How to define out of scope for dependent function?
I am doing a project which have defined required functions for delivery assuming Function A.
During the requirement collection, it is found that the function depends on Function B which should be ...
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WBS (work breakdown structure) vs SRS (software requirements specification document)
I am new to project management and need a clarification. I want to create the work break down structure for a software project. The definition is that WBS must contain 100% of the work. How can I ...
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Project Management for Inconsistent Development Efforts
I am a CS grad student, and I am interested in applying project management or software/system engineering methods to research projects at my university. I have experience applying the Scrum framework ...
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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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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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User's of VersionOne - How do you handle requests that impact a current Epic/Product?
Currently, my effort has a few Epics in flight. One of the Epic's is servicing or enhancing a product in production. We are starting to use the request feature in VersionOne to intake these ...
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Requirements Elicitation Technique For Unknown Workflow
What elicitation technique(s) would you use for a workflow-dependent feature, where the workflow is largely unknown? Given a workshop with the primary user,the designer, the developer and the BA (me), ...
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TFS and customer requirements
I would like some feedback on how to best track customer requirements in TFS.
We are at the start of a new project, and we have the requirements from the customer, in the form of 20-something long ...
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RACI Accountability: How to get alignment when 2 teams feel they should be the Accountable?
Problem statement:
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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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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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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Managing product versions in Confluence with PRDs
Using Confluence I put together a series of PRDs for a future release. Each PRD describes a functional 'unit' of the application, such as 'editor', 'user management', 'customer management', etc. Using ...
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How to list Non-functional requirments when listing functional requirements
So I am defining FRs for my use case say (Place order) "to place order the user has to be logged in"
The login process is a NFR but the FRs depend on this NFR, so how do I list that?
SFRs for Use ...
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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 requirements are handled in TFS with Scrum template
We have just started using TFS (Team Foundation Server) 2017. The team project we created uses the Scrum template. There are only Epics, Features and PBIs (Product Backlog Items) in this template. How ...
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What questions to ask and how to create spec based on provided information
I am interviewing for a trainee BA position and they have given me this scenario to answer. I am not sure on the correct questions to ask and how to develop a requirements spec based on what is ...
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Optimum usage of JIRA and Confluence [closed]
I'm working on recommendations for how to use JIRA and Confluence together for an Agile project. Based on experience teams use Confluence for requirements, linking to JIRA for the user stories ...
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Dealing with change requests while facing lots of dependencies
We have a system with multiple stakeholders and surrounding systems influencing it.
It might be possible to draw a dependency diagram but this would be not very easy to interpret because of the ...
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What does it mean to "verify SW requirements related to safety, security and critically are correct, as shown by rigorous methods"?
I have been given a list of criteria to verify our requirements against (I found out they took it from an ISO standard) and there is one I have no clue what to do with:
the software requirements ...
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Adding requirements gathering to the project plan - time phased budget baseline (PMB)
I'm preparing a time phased budget - basically my project schedule with all resources and cost allocated. When its reviewed, I will need to baseline it for calculating variance (tracking) in future. ...
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Non-Systems/Non-IT BRD
Are BRD and FRD documents required for non-systems/non-IT projects? We are involved in services migration project moving managed website hosting services from a fully-managed external vendor to in-...
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using the prototype for live when building CMS/CRUD systems - wrong? [closed]
I'm currently reading Steve McConnells "Survival Guide" and am thinking of how I can improve our processes on requirements development. The book seems to have very strong ideas about using prototypes ...
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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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Cone of uncertainty - how could we delay commitment to estimates in real life?
I am reading a book from Steve McConnell dealing with software project estimations and I do not understand the following statement (my translation, I got the book in German):
An effective ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Agile requirements tracking
I am new to this forum, I will try to explain the best I can what I am facing. I recently entered a new software development company, and I am the coordinator of a team of Product Owners (POs) who (...
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How can I improve my requirement analyst skill?
I have been working as a software developer for ten years now. I was happy working in my past company for four years, but the dark side is that I had three projects dead at the very end of the job ...
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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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How do I elicit measurable business objectives in the real world?
A very common theme in project management/software engineering resources is that goals should be SMART. This question is targeted to the "M" in SMART: Measurable.
The examples commonly found in ...
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How can I integrate information from a waterfall customer into an agile project?
We're currently doing an agile project where the customer is less agile than what we actually hoped for (he stays with waterfall). Also, while an official requirements specification exists, it is ...
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What to do if functional requirements violate non functional?
How to manage (find out and preserve) the consistency of different types of requirements?
Example: That is great to have gathered many functional requirements (e.g. IS functionality that the system ...
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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 ...