---
title: "The Hardest thing about Engineering is Requirements"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-hardest-thing-about-engineering-is-requirements-o8bb9vnyq
source_url: https://blog.devgenius.io/the-hardest-thing-about-engineering-is-requirements-28a6a70c4db4?source=rss----4e2c1156667e---4
type: article
source: "Dev Genius"
published: 2022-03-15T17:42:33.872Z
updated: 2022-03-15T17:42:33.872Z
tags: ["general-programming"]
reading_time: 7
upvotes: 16
comments: 1
language: en
---

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# The Hardest thing about Engineering is Requirements

**[Dev Genius](https://daily.dev/sources/devgenius)** · 7 min read · 16 upvotes · 1 comments

## Summary

Engineers are constantly working to communicate complicated abstract ideas. The conversations are full of acronyms and invented terminology that have become the nomenclature of the target industry. The software engineers don’t speak the same language as the firmware engineers. Without a feeling for how the user will interact with the product stakeholders often seem to be less engaged.

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