{"id":330,"date":"2020-06-24T14:12:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T19:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projectmanagementacademy.net\/resources\/?p=330"},"modified":"2022-01-26T13:08:45","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T18:08:45","slug":"why-project-requirements-should-be-required","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projectmanagementacademy.net\/resources\/blog\/why-project-requirements-should-be-required\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Project Requirements Should Be Required"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When a project fails, blame is often thrown in many directions: lack of budget, technology issues, or communication gaps. Yet root cause analysis frequently reveals project failure begins in requirements that are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.villanovau.com\/resources\/project-management\/why-projects-fail-how-to-avoid-them\/\">poorly scoped or lacking in end user input<\/a>. Some reports have gone as far as estimating <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cio.com\/article\/255253\/developer-fixing-the-software-requirements-mess.html\">71% of project failure is the result of poor requirements<\/a> management. Project Managers that fully understand the significance and complexity of customer requirements can better ensure successful project outcomes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>On this page:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/projectmanagementacademy.net\/resources\/blog\/why-project-requirements-should-be-required\/#what-are-project-requirements\">What Are Project Requirements<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/projectmanagementacademy.net\/resources\/blog\/why-project-requirements-should-be-required\/#customer-is-right\">Customer Is Right Until They Aren\u2019t<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/projectmanagementacademy.net\/resources\/blog\/why-project-requirements-should-be-required\/#requirements-failure\">Failure In Requirements Leads to Project Failure<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/projectmanagementacademy.net\/resources\/blog\/why-project-requirements-should-be-required\/#how-to-get-requirements\">How Can You Get Requirements<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/projectmanagementacademy.net\/resources\/blog\/why-project-requirements-should-be-required\/#improve-requirement-skills\">How can Project Managers Improve Requirement Managing Skills<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/e360-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/2021\/04\/05154613\/7-Secrets-Passing-PMP-Exam-1.png\" alt=\"7 Secrets to Passing the PMP Exam\" class=\"wp-image-98\" width=\"402\" height=\"152\" srcset=\"https:\/\/e360-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/2021\/04\/05154613\/7-Secrets-Passing-PMP-Exam-1.png 803w, https:\/\/e360-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/2021\/04\/05154613\/7-Secrets-Passing-PMP-Exam-1-300x113.png 300w, https:\/\/e360-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/2021\/04\/05154613\/7-Secrets-Passing-PMP-Exam-1-768x290.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 402px) 100vw, 402px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<script>\n\t\t\t\t\t\thbspt.enqueueForm({\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tportalId: 3294842,\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tformId: \"4091cf73-280a-4cd8-be87-aec72cada392\",\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\ttarget: \"#hbspt-form-1776535275000-0635351584\",\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tregion: \"na1\",\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t});\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/script>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"hbspt-form\" id=\"hbspt-form-1776535275000-0635351584\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"what-are-project-requirements\">What Are Project Requirements<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\">Project requirements can be thought of as the descriptions for the final deliverables. Consider this example: you are going to remodel your kitchen and your general contractor asks: \u201chow do you use your kitchen the most \u2013 to cook for yourself? for large gatherings? as a home office space?\u201d. In that conversation, your general contractor is being a project manager and collecting your input as the end user so that the work to create your new kitchen can be planned. The general contractor should also ask you questions such as: \u201chow long can you go using a temporary space while the new kitchen is built? what is your budget? who can approve any material or design purchases?\u201d. Your customer input is being used to scope the project duration, cost, and approval process. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\">In its essence, project requirement capture two things: <strong>what are you creating<\/strong> and <strong>why are you creating it<\/strong>?<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/f.hubspotusercontent40.net\/hubfs\/3294842\/Project%20Requirements%202.png\" alt=\"Project Requirements 2\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\">Requirements can be complex and vary by customer even if the project seems the same as previous projects. Because of the many variables and the strong tie to potential project failure, the Project Management Institute\u2019s official <\/span><span style=\"color: black;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pmi.org\/pmbok-guide-standards\/lexicon\">Project Management Book of Knowledge lexicon<\/a><\/span><span style=\"color: black;\"> lists these requirement tools:<\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #575757;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li style=\"line-height: normal;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pmi.org\/pmbok-guide-standards\/lexicon\"> <span style=\"color: black;\"><strong><em>Requirements Management Plan <\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/a><br><em style=\"background-color: transparent;\"><span style=\"color: black;\">A component of the project or program management plan that describes how requirements will be analyzed, documented, and managed.&nbsp;<\/span><\/em><\/li><li style=\"line-height: normal;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pmi.org\/pmbok-guide-standards\/lexicon\"> <span style=\"color: black;\"><strong><em>Requirements Traceability Matrix <\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/a><br><em style=\"background-color: transparent;\"><span style=\"color: black;\">A grid that links product requirements from their origin to the deliverables that satisfy them.<\/span><\/em><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Good tools are important. However, the strongest path of requirements gathering and management lies in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greycampus.com\/blog\/project-management\/project-management-how-to-collect-requirements-for-your-project-effectively\">Project Manager\u2019s ability to adjust to client changes<\/a> and the thoroughness of the requirements documented.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"customer-is-right\">Customer Is Right\u2026Until They Aren\u2019t<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\">Back in <\/span><span style=\"color: black;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/top-5-reasons-customer-service_b_5145636\">1909, entrepreneur Harry Gordon Selfridge coined the phrase:<\/a><\/span> <span style=\"color: black;\">\u201cthe customer is always right.\u201d Yet when Project Manager only agrees with the customer it almost always leads to project failure. How can that be? This famous Project Management picture from an unknown artist captures it perfectly: failure to confirm what you are making leads to failure. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/f.hubspotusercontent40.net\/hubfs\/3294842\/Project%20Requirements%203.jpg\" alt=\"Explained, Understood, Designed, Wrote, Described, Documented, Installed, Billed, Supported\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\">For each block in this cartoon, the customer\/stakeholder is fully confident that everyone else is working on making the exact same thing. If the customer is always right, how can there be 10 variations of the final swing deliverable?<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the most important things to remember when working as a project manager is that you should never only agree with customers. This often leads to misunderstandings and could result in not being able to deliver what your customer wants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\">The Project Management Institute\u2019s official <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pmi.org\/pmbok-guide-standards\/lexicon\">Project Management Book of Knowledge lexicon<\/a> does not list a formal definition of \u201cRequirements\u201d but even if it did, it would not convey the complexity as well as this graphic. Businesses need project managers who definitely get customer input, but have the training to know how to make the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/pmworldlibrary.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/pmwj44-Mar2016-Stretton-customers-needs-project-requirements-broader-outcomes-series-article2.pdf\">distinction between the customer\u2019s perception of his\/her business needs<\/a>\u201d and the project. When you have the training to ensure strong customer relations and accurate requirements, you make yourself more valuable to your company and within the job marketplace. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"requirements-failure\">Failure In Requirements Leads to Project Failure<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\">Project Management Institute (PMI) published research reveals the dramatic impact of good or bad requirements gathering and management on a project:<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/f.hubspotusercontent40.net\/hubfs\/3294842\/Project%20Requirements%204.png\" alt=\"Project Requirements 4\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Simply put, if <a href=\"https:\/\/pmworldlibrary.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/pmwj44-Mar2016-Stretton-customers-needs-project-requirements-broader-outcomes-series-article2.pdf\">the initial customer needs are not accurately determined, what is created by the project will likely fail<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Studying for the PMP Exam?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-horizontal is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-1 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-width wp-block-button__width-100 is-style-fill\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-white-color has-text-color has-background\" href=\"https:\/\/projectmanagementacademy.net\/free-pmp-questions\" style=\"border-radius:2px;background-color:#366194\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">PMP Practice Questions<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:8px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"how-to-get-requirements\">How Can You Get Requirements<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\">The first step is to include requirements gathering in your project work. Many teams want to jump into the actual creation, but without solid requirements, they will not be creating what is needed. Requirements apply in any <\/span><span style=\"color: black;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pmi.org\/learning\/library\/techniques-to-reduce-project-failure-5944\"><span style=\"background-color: white;\">project (product creation, product enhancement, software development, manufacturing, process improvement, problem resolution, etc.) and in all types of industries (Banking, Education, Health, Manufacturing, Technology, etc.).<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"background-color: white;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The need for project managers in businesses is increasing as their responsibilities are broadening. As a result, the demand for highly skilled and experienced professionals with strong technical skills will continue to rise. As businesses recruit, they seek to retain project managers with strong requirements gathering and management skills. Some example gathering tools include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/f.hubspotusercontent40.net\/hubfs\/3294842\/Project%20Requirements%205.png\" alt=\"Project Requirements 5\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"improve-requirement-skills\">How can Project Managers Improve Requirement Managing Skills<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\">As a Project Manager, you should actively develop the soft and technical skills needed for effective requirements gathering no matter the project methodology used at your company. Use <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/projectmanagementacademy.net\/project-management-fundamentals\">Project Management Fundamentals<\/a><span style=\"color: black;\"> training for the core elements in the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/projectmanagementacademy.net\/online-pmp-certification-training-course\">Project Management Professional Certification<\/a><span style=\"color: black;\">, including Requirements Management. In <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/projectmanagementacademy.net\/agile-fundamentals\">Agile Fundamentals<\/a><span style=\"color: black;\">, Project Managers use user stories and acceptance criteria to capture the voice of the customer. Any Project Manager will benefit from <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/projectmanagementacademy.net\/managing-client-and-stakeholder-expectations\">Managing Client and Stakeholder Expectations<\/a><span style=\"color: black;\"> training as requirements are directly connected to client input. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\">Strong requirement gathering at the start of the project, with requirement management throughout, will help any project manager increase the probability of project success.<\/span> Make sure to get thorough requirements at the beginning of a project. 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