People don’t simply “gather” requirements

Requirements aren’t lying around waiting for the business analyst to collect them. Requirements elicitation is a more accurate term.

Karl Wiegers
Analyst’s corner
Published in
5 min readJan 9, 2023

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People often speak of gathering requirements on a software project, but this conveys an inaccurate impression. The word gathering suggests that the requirements are lying…

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Karl Wiegers
Analyst’s corner

Author of 14 books, mostly on software. PhD in organic chemistry. Guitars, wine, and military history fill the voids. karlwiegers.com and processimpact.com