Requirements analysts often play the role of translator. They listen to, understand, and document the needs of system users in the users’ natural language and they present the users’ needs
Use cases are an indispensible tool for capturing the behavioral requirements of a software product and many analysts employ them exclusively for that purpose. But use cases can also help
We often spend the majority of our modeling time on use cases, process flow diagrams, and other tools that model behavior. These behavior models are great tools for driving out
One of the most common mistakes made by software development teams and others in thinking about software is the confusion between the concept of software as a project and the
As requirements consultants we sometimes find ourselves working with people who have learned through painful experience that requirements are not fun. We like to think the process we use is
For Agile development teams, there are three key modeling concepts that are critical for successful requirements modeling. First, create model artifacts “just in time” and make them “just good enough”.
Last month I wrote about Agile Requirements and a concept called GRIT or Great Requirements in Total. The idea behind GRIT is that it is important to deliver great requirements
One of the quickest ways to improve your requirements documentation is to have someone else review your work and provide feedback. Of course, the flip side of asking someone to
Any sizeable collection of use cases will have relationships between use cases that can be modeled using the UML includes and extends stereotypes. Used properly these model constructs help make
The first principal of agile software development is that the highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery of valuable software. This is a significant departure
Reliability is an important non-functional requirement for most software products so a software requirements specification (SRS) should contain a reliability requirement, and most do. But, one of our indicators of
One of the challenges faced by requirements analysts is the need to communicate the complex behavior of systems in an understandable yet rigorous and verifiable way. A significant amount of
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