5 Common Mistakes in Requirements Gathering ⚠️
Those of us who were living in the US in 2013 may remember when HealthCare.gov, a new (and at that time, controversial) online marketplace for health insurance, was launched by the US government and crashed within two hours.
A subsequent study by the Government Accountability Office found that the website had been developed “without effective planning” and that “key technical requirements were unknown.” User demand had also been severely underestimated. Essentially, many of the site’s failures were due to poor product requirements planning.
Time To Read: 8 Minutes
Published: June 2021
Link: 5 Common Mistakes in Requirements Gathering ⚠️
After 14 years online, Omegle shut down as part of a settlement in a $22 million sex trafficking lawsuit. If anything was a surprise, it was that the anonymous, randomized chat site was still operational. In a time when multibillion-dollar companies nitpick the rules about “female-presenting nipples” and “non-sexually graphic dancing,” how could a website notorious for its rogue penises still exist?
“I had just been talking with my friends about this, and once we heard the news, we were all like, ‘Oh man, [Omegle] was an institution,’ for better or for worse,” said Brendan Mahoney, a PhD candidate studying internet culture at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School of Communications. “I know multiple people who have mentioned in the past few days that Omegle was the first place they saw a penis.”
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