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Fred Brooks:
“The hardest single part of building a software system is deciding what to build… No other part of the work so cripples the resulting system if done wrong. No other part is more difficult to rectify later.”
Deciding what to build = defining requirements. If requirements are wrong, vague, or incomplete, then everything downstream (design, code, testing, maintenance) suffers. Fixing requirements later is costly.
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