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User requirements capture the stakeholders’ needs, desires, and expectations for a product and are the basis for developing engineering specifications the statements upon which a design will be verified against. Engineering specifications serve as a collection of criteria that the design must meet in order to fulfill the user requirements that were elicited from the stakeholders.  \nAfter completing this block you will be able to:  \n● elicit and develop user requirements from stakeholders  \n● identify data collection strategies to inform user requirements  \n● prioritize user requirements  \n● translate user requirements to engineering specifications  \n● write specific and unambiguous user requirements and engineering specifications  \nTable of Contents  \nSection 1 : What are User Requirements?  \nSection 2: What are Engineering Specifications?  \nSection 3 : User Requirements Elicitation  \nSection 4 : Translating User Requirements to Engineering Specifications  \nSection 6 : Writing Quality User Requirements and Engineering Specifications  \nSection 7: Organizing and Displaying your User Requirements and Specifications  \nSection 8 : Common Pitfalls When Developing User Requirements  \nReferences  \nCore Content  \nSection 1 : What are User Requirements?  \n[User requirements, or] product requirements are any function, constraint, or other property required for a designed artifact to meet the needs or wants of stakeholders; the requirements are translated into engineering specifications that are both quantifiable and measurable in order to guide engineering design processes. [Mohedas]  \nLiterature defines product or user requirements in multiple ways:  \n●  Identifiable capabilities expressed as performance measurables of functions that the system must possess to meet the mission objectives  \n● Attributes of the final design that must be a part of any acceptable solution to the design problem  \n● An externally observable characteristic of a desired system  \nThe term “user requirements” may also be referred to as: product requirements, design requirements, or customer requirements. [Mohedas, Dieter, Jiao]  \nSimply put, a user requirement is a statement that specifies WHAT a product should do, but it does not define HOW it should do it.  \nFor example, the following user requirement specifies WHAT a product should do: The device shall decrease the temperature of the skin  \nbut not HOW it should do it:  \nThe device shall apply moisture to cool down the skin.  \nIn summary, requirements must be specific, clear, and without ambiguity.  \nWhy are user requirements important?  \nCase studies have demonstrated that the success of new products depends upon how well the front end design phases are executed. Studies have also shown that in many instances product failures are a result of critical decision errors made during the front end design phases that could not be cost effectively rectified later in the design process. A key component of front end design involves eliciting and developing product requirements. [Mohedas]  \nThe price is high for teams that fail to define requirements or that do it poorly. Ill defined requirements result in requirements defects, and the consequences of these defects are ugly:  \n● Expensive rework and cost overruns.  \n● A poor quality product.  \n● Late delivery.  \n● Dissatisfied customers.  \n● Exhausted and demoralized team members.  \n2  \nTo reduce the risk of ... project failure and the costs associated with defective requirements, project teams must address requirements early in [the design process] and they must define requirements properly.  \n[Gottesdiener]  \nNot only do poor forethought and planning in developing user requirements lead to the consequences described above, the importance of developing quality user requirements is even more important when we consider intercultural desig","cbCaiajXCDlSoOh1","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiajXCDlSoOh1","pdf",782459,8,"English","# Section 1 : What are User Requirements?\n## Simply put: WHAT the product should do\n## Why are user requirements important?\n# Section 2: What are Engineering Specifications?","[{\"question\":\"What is a user requirement?\",\"answer\":\"A user requirement is a statement that specifies what a product should do, without defining how it should do it.\"},{\"question\":\"Why are user requirements important for product success?\",\"answer\":\"Success depends on how well front-end design phases elicit and develop requirements; many failures trace back to critical decision errors made early and hard to fix later.\"},{\"question\":\"How do poor user requirements affect a project?\",\"answer\":\"Ill-defined requirements create defects that lead to expensive rework and cost overruns, poor product quality, late delivery, dissatisfied customers, and demoralized teams.\"}]","Core Content - User Requirements and Engineering Specifications | PDF",1789178718,6]