Aligning business strategy with technical implementation
Most requirements failures come from documents everyone signed off on but nobody could actually build from. This article walks through eight things your requirements are probably missing, from atomic statements and testable criteria to stakeholder concerns and acceptance conditions.
It was day one of a new strategic initiative at a European telco. The CIO had called us in a cross-functional team of enterprise and solution architects to "make sense" of the business transformation underway. The ask? Launch a new B2B digital marketplace within 12 months, tightly integrated with legacy billing and CRM systems. Before diving into cloud-native platforms, APIs, or integration middleware, we had to do the architect’s equivalent of checking the map: define the baseline and target business architectures, and more importantly, identify the gaps.