IDG Contributor Network: Why capturing enterprise software requirements is so difficult

When purchasing enterprise software, most project failures can be traced back to faulty requirements. As we often say, requirements are to software selection as foundations are to a building. Get them wrong and there always will be problems.Why is it so difficult to gather requirements when selecting enterprise software, and what can be done to improve the situation? Why doesn’t asking users provide all the requirements? This article attempts to answer those questions.Why gathering require