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New Post 8/23/2010 4:33 AM
User is offline GeoBA
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Business Requirements 

I am a newbie at BA and have been enjoying it until lately when a client requested a 'business requirement response' from me.As the sole BA in my department and very new, I did not have a cooking clue what this meant and googling it does not help.Does anyone ever use this term? please explain what it is(or another term that's more commonly used) and also are there templates out there?

 
New Post 8/23/2010 10:32 AM
User is offline Jarett Hailes
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Re: Business Requirements 

Hi GeoBA,

I could speculate what this term means or ask you for more information on your situation, but I think the best thing to do is ask for clarification.  Don't worry about appearing to be stupid; I come across new 'BA sounding' terms every time I start work wtih a new client and I always have to ask what they mean if the correlation to a term I'm used to isn't obvious.  Since you're relatively new you can explain that none of your other clients have yet asked for this type of deliverable and you'd love to know exactly what they're looking for so you can give them what they need.

Jarett

 
New Post 8/23/2010 3:51 PM
User is offline Tony Markos
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Re: Business Requirements 
Hi: If you listen to all the experts, there are business requirements, system requirements, business system requirements, functional requirements, process requirements, business functional requirements, user requirements, and on and on and on. On another web resource, a debate raged for weeks on the difference between business requirements and functional requirements. No concencous was ever reached. Now I am sure you can go to popular book X and find a firm statement as to what a business requirement is. Problem: Popular book Y will have a different interpretation. And popular book Z will have yet another. The key question to ask is: Is any need for more than one term? The answer is no. With data flow diagrams, we call everything: processes done by people, done by software, high level, low level, implementation specific and unchanging business, you name it, ALL ONE THING. What you call it does not matter. What is critical is not to use a variety of labels for essentially the same thing. A simplified labeling of requirements is absolutely critical if the analyst is to produce integrated requirements. Tony
 
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