# Unknown Requirements

> The degree to which starting on a clean slate forces early decisions while requirements are still unknown.

Record: `lexicon:unknown-requirements`
Kind: quality-attribute
Layer: [Evolution Principles](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/evolution-principles.md)
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon#lexicon-unknown-requirements

Listed in [Lexicon terms](https://banes-lab.com/api/records/lexicon.md), after [Unbounded Variation](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/unbounded-variation.md) and before [Unreviewed Structural Change](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/unreviewed-structural-change.md).

## Category

- [Architecture Review Evolution Governance](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon-category/architecture-review-evolution-governance.md)

## In tension with

- [Greenfield Development](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/greenfield-development.md)
- [Greenfield Development / Unknown Requirements](https://banes-lab.com/records/tension/greenfield-development-unknown-requirements.md)

## Linked from

- [Architecture Review / Evolution / Governance Artifacts](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/principles/architecture-category-architecture-review-evolution-governance-artifacts.md)
- [The resolutions](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema/the-resolutions.md)