Project Requirements: A Guide to Best Practices

Encouragement from a Fellow PM

Requirements are hard. They are hard to define, they are hard to fulfill, and they are hard to keep current. This is true whether you are designing software or designing a training program.

All project and program managers (PMs) know that requirements are hard and that they are the basis for everything done on the program. Managers know this and usually believe that they have identified the correct requirements at the start of a project. However, providing the right focus on requirements development and management throughout a program takes a real effort. There is always a momentum for acting quickly, and it is very easy to give requirements short shrift. Many times managers think about requirements only in passing, ...