When a business analyst ensures that a set of requirements is developed with enough detail to be usable by a particular stakeholder, they are performingthe activity of specifying requirements. This involves the analysis, synthesis, and refinement of elicitation results into requirements and designs that are sufficiently detailed for stakeholders to understand and use. Specifying requirements is a critical step in the requirements development process as it translates the raw information gathered during elicitation into a structured format that can be shared, reviewed, and implemented.
References: The BABOK Guide v3 outlines the importance of specifying and modeling requirements as part of the Requirements Analysis and Design Definition knowledge area. It emphasizes that specifying requirements is about ensuring that they are articulated with enough clarity and detail for stakeholders to assess them for correctness and to support subsequent implementation work12.