Forum: Requirements Discussion

Here's what the business wants from the application. "A minimum of 100 forms shall be validated in a 24-hour period." The IT shop has stated...

I have seen many forms of Use Cases, models and associated documents. Most, in my opinion, have not been done well. Most of these problems have...

Can the "Business Process Modelling" technique, say using BMPN, be useful in gathering and specifying software requirements? I have seen BPMN...

Hi there, It's been awhile since I read a book specifically on the BA profession or activities related to gathering requirements. I'm looking to...

I have been on a project which is currently in the process of determining the business requirements with the functional requirements soon to follow. ...

I'm working on a project and we are going to need to capture a LOT of business rules: Workflow. Validation. Calculations. Complex decisions....

In a use case, is it okay to jump from one alternate flow into the middle of another alternate flow? You'd do this if the flows start out different,...

I went away for a few months, and everyone seems to have disappeared. Did y'all go away for a few months, too? :)

In a thread from 12/31, there was some discussion regarding the definition of a use case. Someone said a use case describes an interaction between a...

This may be on the tangent of sofware requirements message board, but I thought I'd give it a go anyhow. My Grand Puba began working with an Agile...

Anybody want to share how they got about estimating how long it takes to elicit requirements and how they got about producing a schedule for those...

At INCOSE 2008, someone suggested a rule of thumb: All project activities must produce work products. If they don't, you shouldn't be doing them....

So a company, such as Seilevel, gathers requirements for a software application, right? So then, would such a company also be able to gather...

Is there a limit to the number of Alternate Courses that is acceptable to have in one Use Case? For example, if I hit 15 Alternate Courses in my...

So I just read this awesome post about why models are so beneficial in software requirements. Another reason for using models that popped into my...

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Hi All, My name is Anthony, I lead a global community of Requirements Practioners @ Dell. Recently we were discussing the topic of what it...

On the Blog there is a post about dealing with conflict requirements. http://requirements.seilevel.com/blog/ Do you deal with them differntly...

I've been doing some reading lately on the topic of requirements patterns. What I've found is that there are a WIDE variety of interpretations of...

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