The Problem With Requirements

Requirements documents are halfway between a peace treaty and a Christmas list.

Simon Pitt
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9 min readApr 21, 2021

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I have an email from Glenn. He needs to get a piece of software built and wants to know if I can make it for him. At the end of his email, he says, “I’ve gathered all the requirements,” and offers to send them over.

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Simon Pitt
Index
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Media techie, software person, and web-stuff doer. Head of Corporate Digital at BBC, but views my own. More at pittster.co.uk