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Requirements analysis
Requirements analysis is the work of examining gathered requirements to make sure they are clear, complete, consistent, and feasible, then prioritizing and refining them into something a team can build. It is the step where a raw collection of needs is turned into a coherent, workable set of requirements.
What it means
Gathering gives you a pile of needs. Analysis makes sense of them. This is where you spot the two requirements that contradict each other, the one that is technically impossible, the vague one that means three different things to three people, and the gap where an obvious need was never stated. Analysis also weighs requirements against each other, since not everything can be first priority.
It is as much about judgment as process. Analysts model the requirements, test them against constraints and goals, and negotiate trade-offs with stakeholders. The output is a refined, prioritized set that is ready to be written up and agreed. Skip this step and you carry the contradictions and gaps straight into design, where they are far more expensive to untangle.
In practice
Analyzing requirements for an insurance quoting tool, an analyst finds that one requirement assumes instant credit checks while another assumes overnight batch processing. The two cannot both be true. Catching the conflict during analysis turns a future architecture crisis into a single decision made at the right time.
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