Aug 15, 2007
“Of course “requirements” doesn’t mean requirements, we should all know that by now. “Requirements” are more like wishes, or more correctly, some placeholder for what I need, or still more correctly, “some placeholder for what I think solves what I think is the phrasing for a problem or desire I think I have.” So a person or group of people write down a bunch of these wish / placeholder things. And of course you’re a fool if you believe them all.
— Alistair Cockburn echoes Captain Barbossa
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