Learning what level of detail is sufficient

Requirements should be captured with sufficient detail in simple language, with business terminology as much as possible so that stakeholders, SMEs, and other business users can relate them to their everyday work. As well as its own culture, each organization has its own business language and acronym usage. This is the language you can see everyone using effortlessly, and it is very specific to your organization. Creating a document in its users’ terminology will chime with their thinking process and understanding. You can use business terms and elaborate the requirements a little bit so that others can understand too. Do not make it too detailed and too lengthy; otherwise, no one will read it.

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To see what level of detail is sufficient, the first thing you should do is business analysis, and the project team should get conversant with business jargon. Unless you know these terms well, you can never understand a business...