Mastering the Requirements Process, 4th Edition
by James Robertson, Suzanne Robertson, Adrian Reed
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Systems Thinking
Many people reading this book have the job title “business analyst” or something similar. Analysis means dissection: breaking a system into its components in order to study them. Contrarily, systems thinking is examining a system in its totality. Instead of thinking about the components of a system, you are looking at the connections between the components and the effect that one component can have on others. You are also looking at the outcome of the system and you can think of the outcome as why the system exists.
Systems thinking starts by thinking about your business area—your problem space—as an end-to-end system; that is, a system made up of a set of components that produces something that none of the components can ...
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