The requirements document

The first step in a documenting a software project is to write a brief statement of the goals of the project. This requirements document should:

Be one page or less in size
State in very broad terms the features to be provided
Describe the goals of the project in such a way that we can later come back to the requirements document and ask ourselves, did we meet these goals?

The third requirement might be called the closure requirement. There will be more closure requirements in later steps. Each closure condition insures that the right problem was solved in the right way.

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See also: Project development protocol
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John W. Shipman, john@nmt.edu

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