Requirements

• An important aspect of quality management is good requirements management i.e. gathering and assessing stakeholder wants and needs.
• The illustration below, originally created in the 1960’s, demonstrates the importance of understanding the customers’ or students’ requirements and clearly communicating to all stakeholders.
• Good requirements analysis leads you to better understand the customer or student needs, and helps you break them down into detailed, specific requirements that everyone agrees on.
• It’s usually quicker and cheaper to fix a misunderstanding at the analysis stage than when it is delivered.
• Requirements analysis helps us understand what aspect of a process needs to be tested.

Source: http://www.tamingdata.com/2010/07/08/the-project-management-tree-swing-cartoon-past-and-present