Again, I don't think he or I are criticizing what you're talking about when we would say business requirements are BS. Steve probably agrees with you. His targe

Again, I don't think he or I are criticizing what you're talking about when we would say business requirements are BS. Steve probably agrees with you. His target audience is the people attempting to learn what is, unfortunately, standard industry practice. I have had the misfortune to work on projects with 3 layers of requirements analysis between developer and user. What you, me, Steve and fortunately most of the hackers here know is that communicating requirements via any form of written documentation is necessarily inferior to richer forms of communication and deeper levels of understanding. Sadly for the socialists, it puts many requirements analysts, a job for which I can't seem to find anyone who would be considered unqualified, out of work. :-)