New Forrester Report on a Requirements “Revolution”
Forrester released a tremendous report recently entitled “High-Value Requirements Are Changing App Dev and Delivery”, by Tom Grant. In this report Tom discusses the recent ‘quiet revolution’ that’s been happening with requirements definition and management, and the ripple effects this is having in the rest of the software development lifecycle.
The report makes the point that we’re living through a requirements revolution where inputs are more broad (now encompassing social media), and we’re more deeply delving into the underlying business problem more deeply and how users will leverage the application. Requirements are being expressed in new, rich, innovative ways, and that all this is having ripple effects in the rest of the lifecycle.
“Great requirements are force multipliers, not unpleasant necessities”
Some net effects of this revolution is that new, innovative tools have emerged in response to this shift, the bar is raising for business analysts and product managers skill sets and experience in this era of increased emphasis on demand and value, and the once separate disciplines of requirements definition and requirements management have essentially melded into one.
“Teams that want to take advantage of these changes must go beyond the sincere desire to understand the customer more deeply to an understanding of how fundamentally requirements writing has changed and appreciate the resulting changes in related software development processes.”
Copies are available from Forrester.
