September 2024
Intermediate to advanced
656 pages
18h 44m
English
book
Mastering the Requirements Process, 4th Edition
by James Robertson, Suzanne Robertson, Adrian Reed
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Business Solutions
The task of business analysis is sometimes seen as producing a set of requirements from which to build a piece of software. However, it has to be more than that. The software by itself is probably not useful until it becomes part of a wider business solution. Unless the software satisfies the needs of the entity supplying input to it (part of the wider business) and provides outcomes that are valuable to the receivers of its outputs (also part of the business), then it is of little value.
So let us take a broader look at business solutions and their components, and why you are solving a wide problem, not a narrow one.
A business solution is a physical reality. Which means that we must move away from the abstract world above ...