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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.

Requirements are documented statement of functional and non-functional capabilities that a particular Product must be or perform. It identifies all necessary attributes, capabilities, and quality relevant to a Product for it to have value and utility to a user.

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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.g. because they have been working on it for…
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Techniques for Managing Teams of High-Maintenance Students

At our university, we have a Student Computing Group of about 25 students. I would describe about 1/3 as self-motivated, innovative, and/or having some level of professional, technical experience. Personally, I am a grad student with about 2 years…
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Ways to get client to provide information about prioritization

When gathering requirements often clients are looking to build feature a,b,c,d,f - z. They get almost too excited about features. They almost become feature hoarders. They want all those features. But it's hard to elicit from them what is of the…
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Doubt defining functional requirements

I'm trying to derive the functional requirements from a use case but I'm with some doubts. The use case is about create a new post and it is presented below. For example looking to the pre-conditions one functional requirement could be: When a user…
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Who is responsible for the requirements?

I am a Business Analyst for a company whom have an in house development team and an in house administration system. We also have an off the shelf system including service contract that directly works with the in house administration system. The…
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What are non-functional quantitative requirements?

I got the following question for homework but I am confused on what is being asked. I'm not looking for you to give me the answers I am just wondering what non-functional quantitative requirements are? I thought non-functional requirements, such as…
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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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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; they are asking me to do so and create a scope…
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How to find out the appropriate High Level Requirements?

Is there any official definition of high level requirements? I've searched google for a while but its still confusing me a lot. I have a list of (Candidate) High Level Requirements. And, I want to classify them as appropriate and inappropriate High…
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Giving requirements to front end developers

Is there an industry standard in communicating requirements to front end developers? I have a project coming up where I will have annotated wireframes that will have front end dev input and complete designs. I normally work with back end developers…
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How to gather client feedback?

I have just started as a product engineer for a web-based product that we have around 150 clients, spread out across a large country. - In short, it is a mapping application that lets you mashup your business data onto maps. I want to kick things…
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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 case: Place order SFR1 - User wants to place…
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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 should perform, gathered through brain storming),…
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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 more detail what the connection between a…
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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 I analyse more requirements from this?
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