Why is Implementing Requirements So hard?

Software project failures are making front-page news. But even with agile, it seems that fulfilling requirements is a herculean task. Maybe the answer is in the statement? Join me in looking at how the software industry has failed at fulfilling requirements and some of the ways it is believed to have caused those failures. Without understanding history, we're doomed to repeat it; but we'll also continue to look at details ways of addressing the problem. We'll then round things out by moving past the subjective into the objective to detail some techniques all of us can use that truely help manage the symptoms causing the problems.