Technical requirement vs project requirement
Both sound like "things the team must do". One is about how the product is built; the other is about what a change delivers besides the product.
In short
A technical requirement fixes how the product works inside: an integration, a database, an architecture. A project requirement is a deliverable of the change that is not product behaviour: training, a guide, a migration, a test report. Both belong to the initiative that carries out the change.
Side by side
| Technical requirement | Project requirement | |
|---|---|---|
| Question it answers | How is the product built? | What else must the initiative deliver? |
| What it leaves behind | A technical design record (TDR) of the component | A delivered item: people trained, data migrated |
| Linked with | Realizes a functional or non-functional requirement | Delivered by a work package |
| Survives the delivery? | Yes, it becomes part of the system's design | Usually done once, at delivery |
How to tell them apart
- If it would still be true of the running system after the initiative closes, it is technical.
- If it is something handed over, done or produced for the launch, it is a project requirement.
- If it limits the delivery (a deadline, a budget) rather than being delivered, it is a project constraint.
Example: Clinic Booking
Technical: "Appointments are read from and written to the clinics' existing calendar."
Solution: "Every receptionist completes a one-hour training before go-live."
Why the difference matters to an agent
An agent treats a technical requirement as a rule for every story that touches the area. A project requirement is instead a deliverable it may be asked to produce. Mixing them up leads to agents enforcing a one-off deliverable as an architecture rule, or ignoring an architecture rule as a to-do item.