The importance of requirements specifications for successful IT projects
Oliver Skroch · Gabler Verlag eBooks · 2010
Today, information technology not only shapes inevitable parts of daily life in modern societies, but also counts for one of the most important success factors in business. By strengthening their own, unique selling propositions, enterprises can achieve particular competitive advantages on the market. IT must support these individual propositions, respectively enable them in the first place. In order to plan, procure, develop, and operate the corresponding IT solutions in today’s efficient and divided value creation processes, the exact requirements for the solutions need to be specified as dearly as possible. All parties involved in the divided work – including, for instance, the principal contractor, end-users, computing centers, systems integrators or developers - profit fromunambig-uous and resilient agreements, which reduce the numerous project risks along steadily globalizing value creation chains. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.