Gathering requirements before development

Gathering the software requirements before starting the development of an enterprise application can be a tedious task, and a failure to do so adequately can have severe consequences, such as increased costs due to delays that are caused by identifying requirements later in the development cycle of the application. Applications that lack the important features to improve the business process workflow will lead users to stop using the application in the worst case.

The requirement-gathering process is complex and tedious, and can take months to complete in an organization. Covering all the steps involved in the process is beyond the scope of this book. This section tries to give a brief description about some of the important steps in the process of gathering software requirements.