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» FEATURED: How Detailed Should Requirements Be? Part 2 - When Less Requirements Detail Is Appropriate
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How Detailed Should Requirements Be? Part 2 - When Less Requirements Detail Is Appropriate Several conditions make it appropriate to leave the requirements descriptions at a higher level of abstraction. Recognize that these are broad guidelines. The BA should perform a risk-benefit analysis to balance the potential downside of omitting important information against the effort required to include it.

» Requirements Reuse: the State of the Practice
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Requirements Reuse: the State of the Practice For several decades, software reuse has been a recognized solution to improving efficiency of software development. However, implementing reuse in practice remains challenging and the IT community has little visibility into the state of the practice specifically as it pertains to reusing software requirements. This paper presents the results of a s...

» FEATURED: Ambiguity, Uncertainty or Both?
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Ambiguity, Uncertainty or Both? We have always been fascinated by the exceptional business analysts who can create order out of total chaos. The ones who can ask those great questions, who can figure out what’s important and what’s less so, who can synthesize lots of information, put it all into their magic hat and come out with requirements that make sense to all the stakeholder...

» FEATURED: How Detailed Should Requirements Be? - Part 1
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How Detailed Should Requirements Be? - Part 1 Recently I was chatting at a wine tasting event with a couple of lawyers, who I had just met. One was surprisingly inquisitive about my work in the software requirements arena. Apparently she was working on case involving software at that very time. At one point she asked me, “How do you know how detailed to make the requirements?”

» FEATURED: How to Effectively Engage Requirement Contributors to Achieve Project Success
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How to Effectively Engage Requirement Contributors to Achieve Project Success Your new system just went live and the project, that replaced a critical legacy system, is coming to a close. Business analysts gathered requirements and worked closely with users and developers, but did you capture all of the requirements?  

» Iterative Analysis and the Diminishing Business Strategy
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Iterative Analysis and the Diminishing Business Strategy Many IT managers have chosen to execute long-term projects in an iterative approach rather than a single linear fashion. This approach is not necessarily agile as the methodology is still “waterfall”-based but rather a series of waterfall executions (or terraced). This approach introduces new challenges for business analysts.
  

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