Recommended Effective Requirements Practices

What are the 10 effective requirements practices that have proven themselves essential for project success?

The 10 Practices are:

• Commit to the approach
• Establish and utilize a Joint Team responsible for the requirements
• Define the real customer needs
• Use and continually improve a requirements process
• Iterate the system requirements and architecture repeatedly
• Use a mechanism to maintain project communication
• Select familiar methods and maintain a set of work products
• Perform requirements verification and validation
• Provide an effective mechanism to accommodate requirements changes
• Perform the development effort using known familiar proven industry,
  organizational, and project best practices.

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