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Author: Geri Schneider Winters
When working on a project, you want to consider what kind of information you have, and what form is the best for documenting that information. These are two different things. A use case is a form of documentation that can be used for a variety of purposes. Sometimes a use case represents [...]

Author: Geri Schneider Winters
As Business Analysts, our job goes far beyond being a note-taker, in other words listening to people talk, writing down what they say and calling it requirements. Notice that the term Business Analyst implies that we analyze. We need to analyze requirements and information and that is some of the skill we [...]

Author: Geri Schneider Winters
Consider all the different kinds of requirements you write – Use Cases, Business Rules, Security, Database, Performance, Usability, Reliability, Regulatory, “shall” requirements. Good requirements are well-defined. How can you determine if your requirements are well defined?
We often hear that good requirements are testable. This means you have some precise, unambiguous way of [...]