1. The Trouble with Requirements
When faced with what they believe is a problem, most engineers rush into offering solutions.
—ALAN M. DAVIS
1.1 First and Least of All . . .
Technical people often pay much more attention to an entity relationship diagram or class diagram than to a requirements list.
Each time a team of systems people sets out to provide a computer system for a group of business people, they proceed through a set of activities that is fairly consistent:
• Requirements gathering
• Analysis
• Design
• Construction
• Testing
• Deployment
• Maintenance
The emphasis that the team gives each phase determines the direction and quality ...
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