I said “Great, no problem. Tell me who they’re for and what problems this solves for them.”
Her response? “They’re the requirements.”
I replied, “I get it. Just tell me a bit about who they’re for, and how are they going to use this, and where does it fit in to the way they work.”
She looked at me like I was stupid and said to me one last time with an air of finality, “They’re requirements.”
It was at that moment that I learned that this word requirements actually means shut up.