Requirement Elicitation: Stories Are Not Requirements

Mar 17, 2019

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One of the three activities encompassed under Requirements Analysis is the process of ‘ Requirements elicitation’. IIBA’s definition of ‘elicitation’ is “An activity within requirements development that identifies sources for requirements and then uses eli...

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