Consistency in writing requirements is important on two levels – strategic and tactical. Tactically, you need to write your requirements with grammatical consistency, so that potentially ambiguous statements will be interpreted similarly. You also need to write requirements that are logically consistent, so that you avoid “impossible” requirements and gaps […]
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Writing Consistent Requirements
One of the ten big rules of writing a good MRD is writing consistent requirements. Consistency within an MRD has two dimensions that are important to requirements – logical consistency and grammatical consistency. There is also the element of writing an MRD that is consistent with other documentation – external consistency.