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- An Investment Story
- Investing in Requirements
- Return on Investment
- Investment Risks
- What to Invest In?
- To Invest or Not to Invest
- Investing in Requirements
- Size of Requirements
- The Value of Requirements
- Reusing Requirements
- What Do I Do Right Now?
- What's the Least I Can Get Away With?
- Additional References for Requirements Value
This chapter is from the book
What's the Least I Can Get Away With?
A little bit of honesty. After you have read this chapter, ask yourself:
- Does the product I am about to build add value to the organization?
- How do I know it will add value?
- Does my project contribute to the overall goals of the organization?
- Is the project worth investing in? Does it create a product that has significant competitiveness for a high-worth work area?
- Do I know what it costs to discover the requirements?
- How do I know the costs? (If you are guessing, then you are doing less than the "least you can get away with.")
- What is my break-even point—when the cost of reworking the product is less than the cost of investing more in the requirements?
- What return do we expect on the investment, and when?
- Have I honestly considered the risks associated with this project?
- Are there any risks that require some preventive actions?
- Do we already have some requirements that are reusable by this project?
These questions may seem obvious, but to start a project without having satisfactory answers for all of them is flirting with alligators.