Requirements Specification

Requirements Specification (4/5): Containing Document Size in Agile Requirements Documentation

The documentation of requirements is an important means within requirements engineering. In projects with few requirements changes over their runtime, good documentation can be achieved with relative ease. For agile projects, however, it is in their nature that their requirements…

Requirements Specification (3/5): Typical Challenges with Agile Requirements Documentation

Documenting requirements is one of the key activities performed in requirements engineering. Even though projects using traditional development approaches naturally perform documentation, many practitioners in agile development projects avoid practicing the documentation of requirements because it is considered too much…

Requirements Specification (2/5): The No-Documentation Myth of Agile Requirements

Documenting requirements is a key activity in requirements engineering. However, despite the ubiquitous role of requirements documents, in agile settings the term “documentation” has a rather negative connotation. Poor documentation practice is often the result of an aversion to documenting,…

Requirements Specification (1/5): Why Should You Perform Requirements Documentation?

In requirements engineering (RE), the documentation of requirements and related artifacts plays a central role. However, practitioners often experience challenges in this particular RE activity. This blog post is the first in a five-part series of articles on requirements documentation….