Requirement consumers depend on excellent requirements in order to effectively design and construct solution components. Excellent requirements leave no room for interpretation, create or cause no confusion and omit no critical detail. They ensure that the consumer of the requirement can understand what is being requested.
To ensure that we are developing excellent requirements, analysts must continually validate their work. Validating requirements is not synonymous with testing software. Learn more about this critical responsibility here: A BA’s Guide to Validating Requirements. We have also created a job aid to help with your validation work. This checklist can be used to ensure your requirements are excellent and possess 10 key characteristics.