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We all love agile software development. It empowers teams that work in a close contact with the stakeholders, reacting on their feedback and delivering iteratively and incrementally product increments. However if we look at this “close contact with the stakeholders” we can oft assess that our “close contact” and as a result the information scope and the quality we can get, is quite “limited”. Mostly, we have only contact with one person who is responsible for the definition of all requirements (is he or she a product owner in case of Scrum or a business analyst or a product manager in case of other frameworks, it doesn’t matter). Because it is just one person, it is very seldom that he or she has holistic (means ultimate) view and understanding of the customer’s business. And this understanding is one of the key concepts needed if we want to deliver a good product and have a satisfied customer at the end of the project.