These short kick-off meetings are a vital part of the glue that binds the iterative delivery process together, ensuring that every party to the implementation of a requirement has a good understanding of that requirement and of their role in its delivery. This approach prevents analysts from creating “ivory tower” requirements that are expensive to implement or test. It prevents testers from raising defects that aren’t defects but are instead a misunderstanding of the system. It prevents developers from implementing something that bears little relationship to what anyone really wants.
