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Ask HN: How do I navigate horror of requirement gathering in product management?

2•souravpradhan•6h ago
Every other day I face challenges while gathering requirements from various clients.

1. When everything becomes priority number 1 2. When the stakeholder goes back on the discussed requirements 3. Requirements change after every single meeting 4. During UAT a new stakeholder appears out of nowhere and says "This is not what we wanted" 5.You rely on SME for inputs who actually doesn't have a clue 6. Two clients from same team give you opposite requirements 7. Scope creep is the new fashion 8. THE BIGGEST OF ALL - The client doesn't know what they want

How do you navigate the horrors of the requirement gathering process to make yourself a better product manager?

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adastra22•6h ago
You learn that this is life as a product manager. It's just the job description :(
AlanClifford•4h ago
“If you don’t get the requirements right, it doesn’t matter how well you execute the rest of the project.”—Karl Wiegers, Ten Cosmic Truths About Software Requirements

Every word Karl writes is gold. That man knows more about Requirements Engineering than anyone and has made a career of helping Requirements Engineers become better.

codingdave•31m ago
That is just how being a PM goes. You need to take all those inputs and synthesize a vision that meets as many needs as possible, without delegating control to the stakeholders.

The most important thing to learn is how to say "No", and that saying "No" should be the default answer.

You add features when multiple stakeholders agree they are needed, not when one new guy shows up in a meeting. You listen deeply to them all and understand why they are asking for things, and devise a solutions that solves their underlying problem - do not just take their requests at face value and implement them. Then you get to surprise them in UAT, when instead of them telling you that you failed to solve their problems, they tell you: "Wow, not what we asked for, but this is even better than what we had thought of."

It is your job to be the expert in what the customers and stakeholders need, so take all those pain points and embrace them as opportunities to learn more deeply what the correct product to build actually is.

It is also your job to set the priority, so there is no situation where everything is priority #1. People can tell you their own opinions on what is most important to them, but the actual priority is set by you.

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