The Requirements Discovery Process

Of course no two systems are the same and the process of discovering and documenting the requirements will be different for every system. However, the following steps should be appropriate for developing requirements in most systems: identify customers and stakeholders, understand the customer’s needs, define and state the problem, write system requirements, review requirements with the customer, define performance and cost figures of merit, validate system requirements, describe the verification process, define technical performance measures, and mitigate risk.