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For anyone familiar with requirements capture in high velocity teams, you will know that the best requirement specifications focus on what needs to be achieved rather than the intricacies of the solution up front. By ‘requirement’ I refer to a service, function or feature that the user needs. For example, if the product to be delivered is a custom built car and we were considering feature based design, the requirements could be: the ability to move , the ability to change direction and a comfortable place to sit . In lieu of these 3, someone else may argue that the correct requirement capture ought to be: an internal combustion engine , a steering wheel and bucket seats . The risk in focussing on the detail ab initio is that the internal combustion engine, steering wheel and bucket seats end up as solutions and not requirements. In new product developments,  I have often seen  how a solution expressed too early constrains what can be achieved within the available time a...