Tag Archives: requirements management

Acceptance and Evaluation Criteria

Acceptance criteria and evaluation criteria can almost be considered as two separate considerations, but they are presented together in the BABOK and I can see why. The BABOK states that acceptance criteria are the basis for determining whether a solution … Continue reading

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The Greatest Illustration of Writing Accurate Instructions Ever!

For architects, business analysts, programmers, managers, testers, and everyone else. It isn’t easy to do it well…

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The Requirements Life Cycle: Management and Reuse

Just as systems, products, and engagements have life cycles, requirements do as well. It’s easy to look at a requirements traceability matrix and imagine that all requirements spring magically anew from the ether during each engagement. Let’s look at some … Continue reading

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Non-Functional Requirements Analysis

Functional requirements relate what a solution DOES. They describe components, behaviors, entities, actions, inputs, and outputs. They contain the details of the design the user sees and the mechanisms that generate results. Non-Functional requirements relate to what a system IS. … Continue reading

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BA Webinar Series 01: Requirements Traceability Matrices

Today I gave this webinar for the Tampa IIBA Lunch and Learn Series. The slides are here.

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Jira and Confluence for RTMs and My Framework

I finally finished the Udemy course on Jira and Confluence. As I watched each section of the course I thought about how the capabilities of the two products can be used to represent Requirements Traceability Matrices, and furthermore how they … Continue reading

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Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM)

One of my favorite tools to use during any project, but particularly for software projects, is the Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM). I’ve discussed this in presentations I’ve given on the framework I use for performing business analysis (and project management … Continue reading

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Addendum To Process Described in Post on Domain-Driven Design

I’ve edited the post from May 11th that describes my preferred project/VV&A methodology. I was reminded, while viewing some excellent presentations at the Project Summit / Business Analyst World conference in DC this week (at which I volunteered) that I … Continue reading

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Domain-Driven Design

At yesterday’s DC PHP Developer’s Community Meetup Andrew Cassell gave a really nice presentation on Domain-Driven Design. He described the major books in the field, some of the main movers and history, and what the idea is all about. In … Continue reading

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