Requirements: Do we really need them? (38)

As you may have noticed there’s a number behind the articles I post on Requirements Engineering. This one has the number 38. It means this is the 38th article we wrote on the topic of Requirements Engineering and how it builds bridges (people with a keen eye may have also recognised all 38 articles show a picture of a bridge). When I say we I mean myself and a number of my colleagues at ImproveQS who are pretty much fanatics about Requirements Engineering… Knowing that, the topic of this article may surprise you… After 37 articles I pose this question: Do we actually need those requirements??