Suzanne Robertson en James Robertson zijn oprichters van The Atlantic Systems Guild, een denktank die bekend staat om zijn vernieuwende technieken op het gebied van systems engineering, en zijn gezamenlijk de grondleggers van de Volere requirements methode, template, checklists en technieken. James verzorgde jaren lang verscheidene trainingen bij Adept Events op gebied van business analyse en requirements engineering.
In a previous article Business Analysis Viewpoints we discussed a number of ways of looking at systems. The intention of these viewpoints is to make it easier to see and under...
There are an infinite number of ways of looking at any system. This article examines useful viewpoints that help Business Analysts to understand the real problem and come up w...
The comprehension gap is the distance between people's understanding of the real problem, and the solution that is delivered to solve that problem. Unfortunately, this gap is ...
Business analysis is often seen as a technical skill. The business analyst builds process and data models, writes precise requirements, makes requirements traceable, estimates...
Agile techniques have brought us many advantages and good ideas – unfortunately, the user story is not one of them. The user story is a "placeholder for a conversat...
I Want . . . Suppose you are a business analysis trying to discover the local government’s requirements for clearing snow from roads and footpaths. You ask the road-engi...
From Go to Whoa Christophe wants to buy a new suit to wear to his daughter’s wedding. He wants a dark blue suit with a waistcoat – and he wants it to make him look...
Wants versus Needs Let’s start by looking at how requirements usually get started. If you ask Business Stakeholders for their requirements you are likely to hear statements ...
The Best Medium? You have ideas for a new design for your garden and you want to communicate the details to your partner. Keep in mind that a garden is a multi-dimensional sys...
Origin of Agility If you work in systems development, especially if you are developing software, it is unlikely that you have not come across the idea of being Agile. But perh...
What is a Use Case? If you ask this question in the wider community, you will come up with at least 40 different answers. This is hardly surprising – use cases are written a...
What are Atomic Requirements? When you have a requirement that is measurable, testable, traceable and detailed enough to define all aspects of a need without further breakdown...
Multiple Viewpoints A common problem voiced by requirements analysts is: “people don’t tell me their requirements, they tell me a solution to some unstated problem...
A Combination of Perspectives The previous articles in this series have focused on different views and levels of requirements and the ability to be able to trace between them....
Volere contains a structure for discovering and tracking requirements at several different levels. The previous article in this series “Work Scope and Product Scope – Why ...
This second article in the series is a discussion of the necessity to separate work scope and product scope and be able to work on them in parallel. In future articles in this...
What’s the Point? The Volere requirements techniques were developed to answer the need for a common language for discovering requirements and connecting them to solution...