Chapter 1 - Some fundamental truths in Business requirements.
Requirements exist whether you discover them or not, and whether you write them down or not. Obviously, your product will never be right unless it conforms to the requirements, so in this way you can think of the requirements as natural law, and it is up to you to discover them. The owner is the person or organization that pays for the software. On the other side of the ledger, the owner gets a benefit from the software. To describe that relationship very simply, the owner is buying a benefit. On the other side of the ledger, the owner gets a benefit from the software. To describe that relationship very simply, the owner is buying a benefit. The software becomes more capable and the cost of construction increases, so the benefit that the software brings. At some point, however, the cost of construction starts to outstrip the benefit and the project is no longer beneficial. If software does not have to satisfy a need, then you can build anything. In any case, on the off chance that...