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» Mapping from Business Processes to Requirements Specification

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There are three basic reasons why you might need to model a business: to re-engineer a business, to improve a business process and to automate a business process. Nevertheless, another reason may be very useful for analyst of software systems and their customers – to understand and automatically generate functional requirements to the system. ...

» Tips for Business Analysts: Using Personas

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Have you noticed the examples of requirements elicitation on my blog? In one case, I had a bit of a contest, using a game to elicit information. You can see this technique by looking in the category Online Game on the blog. Then I had a survey to elicit information. You can see that survey by looking in the category Survey on the blog. Today I am g...

» Requirements for Outsourcing

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Outsourcing differs from other development because there is bound to be a contractual relationship, probably a geographic distance, a different sense of loyalty, language misunderstandings, cultural differences, reluctance to speak up to the client – and many other associated problems. Good requirements are always a problem, but outsourcing increas...

» IT Pays a Price for Poor Requirements Practices

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IAG Consulting’s new Business Analysis Benchmark makes one thing clear: almost 70 percent of companies surveyed set themselves up for both failure and significantly higher cost in their use of poor requirements practices. That failure came at a significant cost: the average $3 million project cost companies using poor requirements practices an aver...

» Understanding the Specifications Puzzle

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Defining specifications for the design and development of systems and software is a lot like this classic Gershwin song and what I personally regard as the biggest cause of confusion in the Information Technology field for as long as I can remember, which is over 30 years in the industry. Some people say specifications should be based on the ...

» Requirements Management in an Agile World - Does it Make Sense?

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The main benefit of today’s Agile development methodologies such as Scrum or XP is the promise of delivering more in a shorter period of time and the value derived from having the flexibility to adjust your course mid-way through a development effort. But does this type of approach allow for requirements management? Is RM necessary given the shorte...

» What Is the Cost of a Requirement Error?

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Many studies have shown that requirements errors are very costly. By one estimate (in an article by Donald Firesmith for the Software Engineering Institute), requirements errors cost US businesses more than $30 billion per year and often result in failed or abandoned projects and damaged careers. The common wisdom is to find and fix requirements er...

» FEATURED: Requirements Risk Management

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I have a hypothesis I want to explore: Requirements Risk management could be a useful approach to requirements analysis, and lead to better requirements management. High level the idea goes like this: Risk management is an important part of project management Requirements management is also a critical part of the puzzle Should we...

» Requirements Simulation- Analyst’s Perspective

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Simulation tools gain visibility in the marketplace. This article highlighted some key advantages and disadvantages around the tool’s ability to identify, communicate, and validate business requirements. The use of a simulation tool should highlight the underlying business process and not focus on ‘pretty’ screens. Your requirements are the structu...

» What Are Use Case Studies?

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A use case study is designed to describe a situation in which the program is being utilized by the end user. It will tell a story of sorts describing how the program works and the input of the user. It does not tell how the program was developed. The details of the programming are not included in the use case study. You are trying to express the co...

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