Why Should You Write Requirements
In this blog post, By Scott Sehlhorst starts with a simple fact: if there is a lot of discussions on how to write requirements, there is not so much material on why to write requirements. His advice is that you should start by thinking about why you write requirements before you decide how to write […]
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Clarifiying the Role of Business Analysts
In this article, Trent Wong discusses how well the Business Analyst’s role is defined in organization. He starts by saying that the Business Analyst is a key success factor for software development projects. You need him to getting the requirements list properly, effectively communicating them to management and translating the requirements so the developers can […]
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Do Agile Needs Business Analysts?
There is no business analyst role in the Scrum Agile project management framework. Based on this fact and some perceptions about Agile, Roland Hesz tries to answer the questions “Do we need a business analyst on an agile project? Are there Agile business analysts?”.
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From Value to Solutions in Agile
Agile uses mostly user stories to capture requirements. In his blog post, Jean-Jacques Dubray explains that there is a problem with user stories because they tend to focus on the solution and not on the problem definition.
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User Stories Are Not Requirements
The common wisdom is that Agile register requirements using the user stories format: “”As a , I want <goal/desire> so that “. In this article, Earl Beede explains why user stories are not requirements.
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A Template for Software Requirements
When you are gathering and documenting software requirements, it is not always easy to remember all the dimension that should be included in this activity. The book “Mastering the Requirements Process” proposes a template that should help you in this activity.
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