Validating Requirements Through Delivery

Acceptance criteria define, in advance, exactly what conditions a specific requirement or backlog item must meet to be considered satisfied — they're what turns "is this done?" from an opinion into a checklist. Writing them clearly up front (rather than improvising a judgment once the work is already finished) is what prevents a delivered feature from technically matching what was built but missing what was actually needed.

Determining whether a project or product is ready for delivery means checking the requirements traceability matrix (in predictive work) or the product backlog (in adaptive work) to confirm every requirement that was promised for this release has in fact been delivered and verified against its acceptance criteria — not just that development has stopped.

Study focus: this task closes the loop on the whole Business Analysis domain — from first identifying roles and gathering requirements in this domain's earlier tasks, to this final validation step that confirms the right thing actually got built. Expect a scenario where a product appears "finished" from a development standpoint but fails validation because a documented requirement was quietly dropped along the way.