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Business Analysts, Useful Blog Posts on Requirements

Posted by on Jun 7, 2011 in business analysis, technical writing | 0 comments

Business Analysts, Useful Blog Posts on Requirements

Tweet I am currently working on an e-book that will consolidate all of this into one neat package. For now, here are all the blog posts I’ve written on requirements. How to Gather Requirements and the Documentation to Help You Do It How to Write an Effective Functional Use Case Questions to Ask Yourself When Collecting and Writing Security Requirements 15 Areas to Think About When Writing Non-Functional Requirements Requirements...

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Free Use Case Template for Requirements Gathering

Posted by on Feb 8, 2011 in business analysis, technical writing | 0 comments

Free Use Case Template for Requirements Gathering

Tweet I have been writing a lot of use cases and requirements documents lately. One of the things that people are always asking is if there is a template to document their use cases. I created this one that people can use to do just that. Hope it helps! Use Case Template...

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Requirements Gathering and Analysis: Non-Functional Requirements

Posted by on Dec 1, 2010 in business analysis, technical writing | 0 comments

Requirements Gathering and Analysis: Non-Functional Requirements

Tweet I discussed non-functional requirements in my previous post “15 Areas to Think About When Writing Non-Functional Requirements.” Non-functional requirements are the requirements that stakeholders and users haven’t thought of, but you have to because without them, the system will fail. If you don’t collect non-functional requirements, then you will not be creating a system that behaves in the way the users need...

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Requirements Gathering and Analysis: Functional Requirements

Posted by on Nov 30, 2010 in business analysis, technical writing | 0 comments

Requirements Gathering and Analysis: Functional Requirements

Tweet Before Thanksgiving (how much did you eat? Tell the truth), I wrote about user requirements, assumptions, dependencies, and constraints. This leads the discussion to functional requirements. I am going to break into three parts: basic information about functional requirements, requirements traceability matrix, and use cases. Use cases usually go hand-in-hand with functional requirements, but I really want to go into detail on use...

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15 Areas to Think About When Writing Non-Functional Requirements

Posted by on Jan 13, 2010 in business analysis, technical writing | 9 comments

Tweet Non-functional requirements should be defined when you are also creating and writing functional requirements. These are requirements that detail the constraints and quality standards that the system you are building should adhere to. You can find out what these non-functional requirements should be by your experience, interviews, and industry standards. Also, you can use functional use cases to try and discover what non-functional...

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