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Tips for Business Analysts: Information – Kind of vs Form of
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 … Continue reading
Tips for Business Analysts: Use Cases Are Not the Only Requirements
Author: Geri Schneider Winters With all the focus on Use Cases, it can be easy to forget that they are not the only kind of requirements. Use Cases are very good for some kinds of requirements, but really bad for … Continue reading
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Tips for Business Analysts: Requirements in Complex Systems
Author: Geri Schneider Winters Some of you may be working on systems with many complex relationships between the parts. These complex systems may be described as a system of systems, or may be described as a product line, or perhaps … Continue reading
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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
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
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
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
