It was when I first started working near software development (many, many years ago) that I began hearing the word ‘requirements’ a lot. Then I trained to become a business analyst, which, if you trust the theory, equates to gathering requirements for most of your life, and then you draw some process maps in the end. One could wonder, is it really that big a deal, to commit nearly a full time job to it? Having done it for a while, I can assure you: it is. To get a new somethi