One of the most common mistakes by new analysts is to confuse functional and nonfunctional requirements. Review the following list of received requirements for a sales system. Requirements for Proposed System The system shall: 1. be accessible to the Web users; 2. include the company standard logo and color scheme; The system must: 3. restrict access to profitability information; 4. include actual and budgeted cost information; 5. provide management reports; 6. include sales information that is updated at least daily; The system should: 7. have two-second maximum response lime for predefined queries and ten-minute maximum response time for ad hoc queries; 8. include information from all company subsidiaries; 9. print subsidiary reports in the primary language of the subsidiary; 10. provide monthly rankings of salesperson performance.

Submit answers individually to the following questions: 1. After reading SEI Technical Report on Quality Attribute Workshops (QAW), what can happen if you ignore nonfunctional requirements?

2. If you had to descope this project because of cost or schedule constraints, which two of these 10 requirements would you consider as best candidate requirements for descoping? Why?