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Requirements review
A requirements review is a structured check of requirements by stakeholders to confirm they are clear, complete, correct, and agreed before development starts. It is a quality gate that catches ambiguity and conflict early, when fixing a requirement costs a comment rather than a rebuild.
What it means
Requirements are cheapest to fix before anyone builds from them. A review puts the right people in front of the requirements to ask the awkward questions: is this testable, does it contradict that one, do we actually agree on what it means. Catching a flaw here saves the far larger cost of discovering it in testing, or worse, in production.
Reviews also create a record of agreement, which matters when sign-off has to be demonstrated later. In regulated work, evidence that requirements were formally reviewed and approved is often required. Azure DevOps has no built-in review and approval workflow for requirements, so teams that need one use a tool like Modern Requirements to run reviews and capture who approved what, and when.
In practice
Before a build phase, a team circulates its requirements for review. A test lead flags that two requirements set conflicting timeout values, something that would have surfaced as a confusing bug weeks later. The conflict is resolved in a comment thread, and the approval is recorded as part of the project's evidence.
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