During the requirements verification process, stakeholders are finding many errors in the requirements definition. What could the business analyst have done to avoid these errors?

Having stakeholders write requirements themselves does not guarantee accuracy and can introduce inconsistencies, gaps, and conflicting language.

Updating the RTM tracks requirements for traceability but does not validate or verify the correctness of the requirement content itself.

Including the PM in elicitation sessions does not address the BA's responsibility to confirm what was captured with the stakeholders who provided the information.

Confirming elicitation results after each session - through walkthroughs, reviews, or sign-offs - ensures stakeholders validate what was captured before it becomes a formal requirement. This step catches misinterpretations, missing context, and ambiguities while they are still easy to correct. Skipping this confirmation step allows errors to propagate into the requirements definition and surface only during later verification, which is costlier to fix.