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Junior requirements analysts sometimes have difficulty with how to document business rules for information systems, or indeed, with recognising them in the first place. I hope this short article helps. Some Definitions “A rule under which an organization operates. A policy or decision that influences a process step.” (Data […] It continues to amaze me how many projects proceed against a poorly-written scope document or no scope document at all. It also makes me wonder on what basis tenders are made. If I am ever asked to provide input input work estimation, I insist on seeing a baselined statement of scope […] Here is a very interesting TED talk by Diana Laufenberg on the importance of teaching children to learn from mistakes. Wouldn’t it be great if people in business did the same? “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” From Worstward Ho by Samuel Beckett […] Many requirements analysis specialists have little or no development or testing experience and this can lead them to forget what the real deliverable is. The purpose of requirements analysis is to provide a robust and unambiguous requirement so that architects and developers know what to build and testers know what to […] A photographer friend recently took some pictures of Gema and myself and the CD arrived yesterday. I had been eagerly awaiting the CD because I wanted to have customised New Year greeting cards done with a photo of the two of us. I duly took the CD to my local Carrefour […] |