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Nurturing Requirements
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MS.2004.1270755March/April 2004 (vol. 21 no. 2) pp. 13-15
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Dave Thomas, Andy Hunt, "Nurturing Requirements," IEEE Software, vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 13-15, March/April, 2004.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/MS.2004.1270755,
author = {Dave Thomas and Andy Hunt},
title = {Nurturing Requirements},
journal ={IEEE Software},
volume = {21},
number = {2},
issn = {0740-7459},
year = {2004},
pages = {13-15},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MS.2004.1270755},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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JO - IEEE Software
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KW - requirements; constraints; constraint-based requirements; stakeholders
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In the real world, stakeholders are interested in solutions, not some abstract developer-centric set of requirements. And users most definitely change their minds: perhaps they got it wrong, or perhaps the world just changed. However, a kind of mass delusion seems to persist in the development community. Many people think that there are such things as requirements.

Index Terms:
requirements; constraints; constraint-based requirements; stakeholders
Citation:
Dave Thomas, Andy Hunt, "Nurturing Requirements," IEEE Software, vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 13-15, Mar./Apr. 2004, doi:10.1109/MS.2004.1270755
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