Many of the challenges to gathering business requirements comes from the sheer velocity of technology, business models and business processes. Software engineers and applications developers should look beyond the systems development life cycle (SDLC) and similar tools – including Agile – for functional business requirements. Software requirements engineers should look at decentralized and federated organizational structures to find requirements that satisfy specific (and changing) business unit requirements. The real source of functional business requirements is not in the enterprise, but in the business units and even individual product/service suites. Software engineers and applications developers who want to understand functional business requirements should therefore watch-and-learn from these pilot deployments.

Source: Forbes March 09, 2021 01:18 UTC