Requirements remind me one of The Simpsons episodes, where Bart reads outs loud junk mail: "Gas your termites. Freeze your termites. Zap your termites. Save your termites?" and it feels sometimes that writing good requirements is more of an art form than a teachable skill.

In the world of agile development, requirements are often seen as something cavemen used to gather, but in reality user stories serve the exact same purpose as requirements, with the intent to avoid the black magic that requirements are made of.

This post describes some of the practical usefulness in well written requirements that I found for myself and how requirements can make managing projects a bit more straightforward.