Mastering the Requirements Process, 4th Edition

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Writing Good Stories

This is a book about requirements and business analysis, so when we talk about stories, we talk about them in a way that is useful for the business analyst. The prime task of the BA is to understand the business problem. As this understanding matures, the analysts and appropriate stakeholders determine the solution that best solves the problem.

In Chapter 21, Stories, we described the business event story and how you can use it to determine the beneficiary and outcome of the business events. This means that a business event story is the linchpin of the analysis that follows. The story’s event is isolated, and the analyst trawls, interviews, models, prototypes, and does whatever else is required to discover the set of ...