As a user, acquirer, or developer of a system, product, or service, have you ever been confronted with one of the situations listed below? • Wondered if the people who designed a product bothered to ask potential users to simply try it before selling it to the public. • Found that during a major program review prior to component development that someone thought a requirement was so obvious it didn’t have to be written down. • Participated in a new system development effort and discovered at Contract Award that team members were already designing circuits, coding software, and developing mechanical drawings BEFORE anyone understood WHAT system users expected.
