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How to shoot yourself in the foot. 7 ways to do software requirements poorly  
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How to shoot yourself in the foot.

7 ways to do software requirements poorly to set your project up for failure and what to do instead.

 
By Bhoffman
 
Why spend precious project cycle time on software requirements rather than just getting down to business on design and implementation? Back in the 1970’s Barry Boehm published extensive data from large projects showing that an error created early in the project, for example during requirements specification, costs 50 to 1,000 times as much to correct late in the project as it does to correct (or avoid) close to the point where it was originally created. His landmark study has been confirmed over and over again on countless projects in the decades since.
 
Why are errors so much more costly to correct downstream? There are two main reasons: project artifacts to be corrected increase over time and more people need to get involved in defect correction as the life cycle progresses. A poor requirement or an unneeded requirement will become the ‘tip of the iceberg’ ...
 
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