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Requirements are real capabilities which the system must provide. It makes sense therefore to find out what the requirements are, write them down and organize them, and manage them in the event that they change. Stated another way we’ll define requirements management as a systematic approach to eliciting, organizing, and documenting the requirements of a system. It is also our responsibility to understand the needs of users and other stakeholders whose lives will be affected by our solution.

As we elicit those needs, we’ll stack them in a little pile called stakeholder needs, which we represent as a pyramid.