When Requirements Can’t Fly!
In today’s VUCA world - volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous - many projects fail for a subtle reason: some requirements look right but quietly break the rules that hold …
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Splitting Requirements at Scale
Analysis means breaking down large problems into smaller, more manageable ones. We, as BAs, understand intuitively that this is what we do and that how well we do this will likely …
Classical requirements and test analysis a discontinued model?
In times of increasing "agilization", the question arises as to whether classic requirements engineering and test analysis are still relevant at all. Since the IT of banks and …
A General Systems Thinking Perspective on the CPRE
Adding the concept of observer to the definition of the system in the CPRE can extend, simplify and justify the discussions about points of view, shared understanding and …
Discovering System Requirements through SysML
For Business Analysts/Requirement Engineers/System Analysts, the greatest innovation brought by the Systems Modeling Language (SysML) is the introduction of 1) the requirement as …
Inputs to requirements engineering in agile projects
Practices from the Agile software development (ASD) spectrum are adopted by enterprises worldwide for project and product development. Either adopting practices from management …
Interview with John Mylopoulos
Preface of the Editor in Chief Perhaps it is like carrying coals to Newcastle when we briefly introduce John Mylopoulos in this preface to the following interview. Luisa Mich, …
How Will It Work?
In a previous article Business Analysis Viewpoints [1] we discussed a number of ways of looking at systems. The intention of these viewpoints is to make it easier to see and …
Learning from history: The case of Software Requirements Engineering
This article describes initial conclusions of our research into how and why the requirements engineer’s role has changed over the years, with the longer-term goal of developing …
Data Science – the expanding frontier for Business Analysts
Prelude As Business Analysts our profession is constantly evolving over time. As our roles mature, our experience, expertise, and skills gradually move us from informants to …
Modeling Requirements with Constraints
Modeling requirements is not really new, but there are many ways to do it. We discovered constraints as a powerful concept that allowed us to create concise models that are lean, …
Modeling Requirements and Context as a means for Automated Requirements Validation
When designing an automation plant the control software for the entire plant is typically designed after the physical architecture of the automation plant and the technical plant …