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Hidden Requirements

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Summary

System requirements are not adequately documented, either through carelessness, ignorance, or malice. As a result, different assumptions about system functionalities or design aspects are made among some team members.

Symptoms

lack of requirements-type artifacts
escalations from an operational system, indicating significant feature is missing or incorrectly implemented
heavy, architectural refactorings late in development project

Specific To

any

Anti-pattern	Relation
Specify Nothing	potential cause

Sources

[CUN’13]

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