The top risk of requirements engineering

The worst thing that can happen in requirements engineering is that your set of requirements, however expressed, doesn´t accurately represent your users´ needs and consequently leads your team down the wrong development path. The whole point of requirements engineering is to steer your development toward producing the right software. If you don´t get the requirements right, how well you execute the rest of the project doesn´t matter because it will fail. The article looks at how we can be led astray