Most software projects do not fail because nobody can write code. They fail earlier. They fail when the team builds the wrong thing, solves a half-understood problem, or discovers too late that a stakeholder had a completely different expectation. By the time this becomes visible, the roadmap is already committed, the backlog is full, and the development team is asking why a “small clarification” suddenly changes the entire feature. That is the quiet danger of poor requirements elicitation. Requirements elicitation is the process of discovering, clarifying, and documenting what stakeholders actually need from a system. It sounds simple. Ask questions, collect answers, write requirements. In reality, it is messy, political, repetitive, and often squeezed between meetings. Stakeholders are busy. Product managers are overloaded. Business analysts cannot interview everyone. Developers receive vague tickets. Questionnaires come back half-completed. Time zones slow everything down.…