Adaptable Requirements Management

"Adapting Your Requirements Practices" by Ellen Gottesdiener is the current article on Stickyminds.com. Requirements management is core to software development activity and requirements management approach differs from project to project.

Ellen says,

"Some amount of requirements growth and change is normal. The practice of "playing around" with a product is an excellent way to explore and learn about users' real needs. It also helps teams adapt to changing requirements. Using requirements models or partial working prototypes, customers can play with a product early on and help clarify their needs. This practice translates into defining requirements iteratively, whether your project is change or risk driven. "

My comment on Ellen's article as posted on Stickyminds.com

"With emergence of agile methodologies, increased competition and shrinked time to market, software products undergo a lot of changes during the development cycle and adaptive/lightweight requirements and design process go a long way in ensuring that stakeholders gain maximum business advantage by flexibly implementing the changes they require."