Decision déjà vu

We’ve all been there. You are sitting in a meeting and it dawns on you:
We’ve made this decision before. Why are we struggling with it again?
Perhaps it was on your last project when you wrestled with essentially the same choice. Perhaps it was last month, when you thought this decision had been nailed down, only [...]

Derived requirements – continued

If decisions create requirements (as explained in my previous post), then decisions also create ALL the interactions between requirements.  This implies that there is never a constant, always-present, solution-independent relationship between any 2 requirements. 
Perhaps you’ve been involved in populating or using a House of Quality as part of a Quality Function Deployment (QFD) initiative.  The House of [...]