Who approved your requirements and what did the approval process look like?

The requirements approval process typically involves several stages and participants:

• Requirements initiators — business analysts, clients, or product managers formulate initial requirements.
• Development team — assesses technical feasibility and suggests adjustments.
• Interested parties — may include marketing, support, end users.

The approval process looks like this:

1. Gathering requirements through interviews, workshops, or documentation analysis.
2. Formalizing requirements into specifications or user stories.
3. Discussing requirements with the team and interested parties, identifying contradictions and clarifications.
4. Iterative approval, making revisions, and approving the document.
5. Signing or formally confirming requirements by all parties.

For example, in one project, we used a task tracking system (Jira), where requirements were formatted as epics and tasks. Each task underwent review and discussion, after which it received the status "Approved". This allowed tracking changes and maintaining transparency in the process.