2. How to handle missed requirements in project management | practical tactical tips for managers
This video provides a clear, real time, practical tips and tactical tips for handling 'missing requirements' in real-time project for experience project managers and new project managers.
Even this can be considered as an interview question for project management interview.
Let's look into some tactical tips, to handle missing requirements in a project.
Nothing is more challenging for a project manager than a situation where, after successful project go-live, users complain that there is a requirement gap in the final product.
Based on the criticality of the missed requirement, there could be a significant loss to the organisation in terms of business benefits.
The following ideas can assist in reducing the impact of this challenge.
First tactical tip and practical tip for handling missed requirements for both new project manager and experienced project manager is, look for Manual workarounds
Here are some steps and practical tips to avoid any such scenario of requirements missing.
You can reference each item of your detailed project requirement and start tracing it at every major deliverable. For example, to check how a requirement is managed in your design documents, in code, in test scenarios, in test scripts, and in deployment plans, and to track it through the entire life cycle. In project, this can be achieved by creating requirement traceability matrix.
This will give you the confidence that all the requirements are now covered as part of delivery.
Second tactic tip to avoid any such gap is to have adequate Client workshops.