Software Requirements Essentials: Core Practices for Successful Business Analysis

Appendix

Summary of Practices

Laying the Foundation

Practice #1. Understand the problem before converging on a solution.

Practice #2. Define business objectives.

Practice #3. Define the solution’s boundaries.

Practice #4. Identify and characterize stakeholders.

Practice #5. Identify empowered decision makers.

Requirements Elicitation

Practice #6. Understand what users need to do with the solution.

Practice #7. Identify events and responses.

Practice #8. Assess data concepts and relationships.

Practice #9. Elicit and evaluate quality attributes.

Requirements Analysis

Practice #10. Analyze requirements and requirement sets.

Practice #11. Create requirements models.

Practice #12. Create and evaluate prototypes.

Practice #13. Prioritize the ...