Business Requirements

[James Barrow]

>Candis Condo wrote:
>>John Posada wrote:
>>
>>I tell my managers that I'll make the case once. If they decline, I'll try
>>once more if I feel strongly. If they decline, I won't try again. It's one
>>thing to feel strongly and another to be a fanatic.
>
>I think John is right. I tell management once; if I feel strongly about it,
>I will say so a second time. After that, they are on their own.

Again, in a circumstance in which a tech writer was trying to push best
practices this would be a good rule, but this isn't my case.

Specifically, I'm talking about a Project Management Office saying "We don't
need no stinking requirements" and an Architecture Department saying "We
can't build it without requirements."  Even more specifically, the
Architecture Department cannot measure nor report any successes (milestones)
without the requirements.

- Jim