The five types of requirements project teams must be managed Concurrently Separately Asynchronously Incongruently Why must top management continuously review project status to ensure all requirements are being considered accurately? Sometimes the administrative part of the contract takes over Some organizations use boilerplate SOWs Sometimes we lose sight of the requirements of the organization or customer Sometimes managers get side-tracked What is a common danger in writing requirements? Breaking down the work for building the requirements Focusing on outcomes and not actions Copying previous functional and technical requirements from an archived work statement Accounting for any amount of work twice 2 Why do some relationships end up in contractual litigation? Because requirements are poorly constructed and documented Because someone has gotten hurt Because someone has been discriminated and harassed Because contracts are complicated