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Non Functional Requirements are Ignored

The product does everything the user stories say…yet customers complain it’s slow, and insecure.

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Vibhor Chandel
Sep 04, 2025
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It’s a frustrating place to be; the user stories are “done,” and still something is clearly missing.

What exactly?

Performance. Security. Usability. Scalability.

These are the Non-Functional Requirements… the NFRs.

The problem is, the NFRs DO NOT shout during sprint planning. They shout during production.

In today’s post, I’ll break down:

  • why NFRs get ignored,

  • why does it happen with the Scrum teams

  • how the teams I worked with fixed this problem

Let’s get started.

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