Our group here follows an agile approach to development which often does not allow time to generate the best requirements. This definitely has caused us problems with increased defects and difficulty defining proper behavior for our global QA team. Recently we have added requirements phases into our development life cycle, specifically the BRD and TAD pieces. I think this is the first step to moving into more regimented requirement documentation guidelines - however we will require one of two things to pursue the level of requirements embraced by organizations such as Blueprint:
- More staff for reqs writing
- Reduced development and time to market requirments to allow small staff time to develop reqs docs
With current economic conditions, option 1 is unlikely. Option 2 isn't particularly appealing either for an organization trying to drive new product development and new revenue streams...
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