business analysis
Collaborating With Stakeholders
To make UX research and requirements gathering more efficient and effective, you have to get everyone in the software development team and the user representatives involved. When the teams understand user concerns and usability issues, they become better at preventing problems.
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Reviewing Requirements for Testability
Modern software development approaches like Agile support a strong collaboration between all member of the software development team, software testers and business analysts included. Even if you don’t use a method like Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) or Specification by Example, checking the fact that you will be able to actually test your requirements is a good […]
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Getting Well Written Requirements from Business Analysts
A lot has been said and written about user stories and their role in an agile context. But what are people actually writing as user stories? It doesn’t matter if you are agile or traditional in your approach, poorly written requirements are one of the major causes of project failure. This is where the Business […]
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Find Missing Requirements
This blog post by Betsy Stockdale explains how to use the Feature Tree model to discover missing requirements.
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Creating Customer Value with Quality Requirements
How do you know what to build of your customer wants a “secure solution with a good amount of flexibility and user-friendliness”? You don’t! Force the customer to be more specific!
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Perfect Requirements
In this blog post, James Christie starts from the fact that perfect requirements don’t exist to discuss the idea that the quality of requirements is directly influenced by the time and money you invest in crafting them.
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