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» Measurably Improving Your Requirements

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Requirements continue to be a major problem area for most organizations. According to industry reports, the leading causes of quality, cost, and schedule problems are lack of understanding of the customer’s needs, incomplete requirement specifications, and managing changing requirements. In fact, requirements are so important that one of the defini...

» FEATURED: Requirements and the Beast of Complexity

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Requirements and the Beast of Complexity

This article promotes a new approach to requirements management that reduces project complexity and improves communication between business and IT. This new approach can be used on its own, or as a supplement or precursor to existing approaches. Critical features of the approach are: detachment of business requirements from individual projects; and...

» FEATURED: Six Simple Steps for Accelerating and Perfecting Requirements: A Framework, a New Model, and Visualization

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Six Simple Steps for Accelerating and Perfecting Requirements: A Framework, a New Model, and Visualization

We present a requirements framework and methodology that may be different from what you are doing. Its three prominent characteristics are a framework, a new model, and visualization. The framework ensures completeness of all requirements. The new model is the Decision Model, transforming important business thinking into a tangible and manageable b...

» FEATURED: Using Extreme Inspections to Significantly Improve Requirements Practice

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Using Extreme Inspections to Significantly Improve Requirements Practice

Extreme Inspections are a low-cost, high-improvement way to assure specification quality, effectively teach good specification practice, and make informed decisions about the requirements specification process and its output, in any project. The method is not restricted to be used on requirements analysis related material; this article however is l...

» FEATURED: BAs Will Falter Until They Learn to Discover REAL, Business Requirements

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BAs Will Falter Until They Learn to Discover REAL, Business Requirements

Widely-accepted conventional requirements models continue to create creep—changes to settled requirements which are a major cause of project overruns. Business Analysts and others will continue to encounter such creep so long as they follow flawed models focusing on requirements of a product or system being created without adequately also discoveri...

» FEATURED: An Overview of Business Requirements

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With business analysis projects, as with all endeavors, you have to know where you are going before you can chart your course to get there. In other words, before you can decide whether to take a train, bus, or plane, what time of day you will travel, and what you will carry, you have to decide where you are going. So it is with requirements. Befo...

» FEATURED: An Introduction to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK 2.0)

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An Introduction to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK 2.0)

The Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK® 2.0) is the definitive guide to the profession of business analysis. Every business analyst can profit from it, and few analysts can afford to be without it.

» FEATURED: Getting Your Requirements Right: Collaborate With Stakeholders To Work Smarter

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Given the economic downturn, "cheaper, better, faster" seems to be a universal mantra in business. To stay competitive, organizations must continually strive to be more agile and develop higher-quality solutions more quickly-despite obstacles such as geographically distributed teams, limited budgets and resources, quick delivery times, language bar...

» The Value of Requirements Traceability

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As the process of capturing and documenting business requirements matures, there is often a watershed moment when an organization must decide whether to perform traceability of requirements as part of that process. Most companies involved with a formal methodology for software development utilize some degree of traceability; but those not familiar ...

» FEATURED: Writing Flexible Requirements for Future Development

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For almost every analyst, the day comes when you write a set of requirements that causes engineers to bemoan a recent development project that they just coded. "If only we'd known that you wanted to build this, we would have made the last project more flexible. Now we've hardcoded in changes that will take days to rebuild."

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