Software Engineering

3.1 
Stakeholder needs relationships and dependencies
Stakeholders have a vested interest in the development, operation, and sustainment 
of the software product. They derive some benefit or utility from the existance of 
FIGURE 3.2
Chain of requirements traceability.

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3.1 
Stakeholder needs relationships and dependencies
the product in their professional occupation, personal affairs, or entertainment. 
Stakeholder needs establish the value, potential, motivation, and consequence of 
the product’s existence and sustainment. Stakeholders’ contribute their professional 
discrimination toward the definition of the product’s composition, characteristics, 
and application within their profession, enterprise, and industry. When the product 
is finally deployed, stakeholders gain personnal benefits and satisfcation with hav-
ing been closely assoicated with the product’s development. Additionally, stake-
holders often become advocates for the use of the product within their business 
ventures, industry, or social circles, and take great pride in their contribution to the 
development of a successful product. The prinicpal dependencies between stake-
holder needs and software requirements are: