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Tips for Business Analysts: Alternatives of Alternatives

Author: Geri Schneider Winters Another great question came from Adesh Sharma about whether or not he could write alternatives to alternatives in use cases. There is no actual standard for the formatting of a use case, just guidelines and best … Continue reading

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Tips for Business Analysts: Use Cases and Reports

Author: Geri Schneider Winters I get my best ideas for these tips from you, my readers. This tip is a response to a question from Pete McNally on how to document requirements for reports and whether or not those requirements … Continue reading

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Tips for Business Analysts: Estimating Requirements Gathering

Author: Geri Schneider Winters Alan Thompson wrote recently to ask, “How do we do a better job of estimating how long it will take to gather requirements?” This is a question that often comes up, so I want to share … Continue reading

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Tips for Business Analysts: Alternative Flows of Events

Author: Geri Schneider Winters When you find an alternative to a use case basic flow, you have two different ways to handle it. One way is to put the alternative in the steps of the basic flow. That way of … Continue reading

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Tips for Business Analysts: Good Requirements

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? … Continue reading

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