Requirements engineering the elicitation, documentation and validation of requirements is a fundamental aspect of software development. Unfortunately, and to the detriment of everyone involved, requirements engineering efforts are often shortchanged or even completely forgone in favor of "getting the code out as soon as possible, at all cost." This month I share my experiences and observations regarding requirements engineering, present several requirements engineering patterns that you should find valuable to your software development efforts, and suggest several good books that describe how to successfully engineer requirements.
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