[header] How to gather business requirements [title] Analyze the identified problem. [step] Prior to gathering business requirements, the company needs an issue to focus on. Once a problem is identified, the company, in turn, seeks the optimum solution to solve the problem. 
The business requirements provide an outline of justification for the project and the details necessary to determine the optimum solution. [substeps] That means that the company must continually gather data about its customers so that it can identify problems and so that it has data to provide justification for new projects.