How Do You Know If Your Requirements Are Good Enough?

Requirements must be good enough to let construction proceed at an acceptable level of risk. But how can you judge when you’re there?

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4 min readApr 26, 2024

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A software team is never going to get a perfect set of requirements. Some could be incomplete, incorrect, unnecessary, infeasible, ambiguous, or missing…

How Do You Know If Your Requirements Are Good Enough?

Requirements must be good enough to let construction proceed at an acceptable level of risk. But how can you judge when you’re there?

Written by Karl Wiegers