Welcome! This site specializes in providing tips and tools for Business Analysts and systems development in general. If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. If you’d prefer, you can also receive my posts directly to your e-mail. Thanks for visiting!I just want to pass along a story I read in this morning’s WSJ that I think will appeal to this blog’s audience because a] it’s about one of our own; a “techie”, and b] it’s just a neat story. I really appreciated it, and …

This quick post is just to share an article I came across that I thought might be beneficial, especially to the relatively new analyst. “Specifying Good Requirements“, by Donald Firesmith, includes some good, basic information about requirement quality assurance.
Basically, the article consists of a list of common requirement quality attributes (you know.. complete, correct, unambiguous, etc.) accompanied by questions that can be used as a checklist to ensure that your requirements meet the criteria of each attribute.
Firestone points out,
[J]ust as we all had to learn the rules for writing grammatically …

As I was scanning some requirements-related blog posts a few days ago, I came across a solid post by Prashant Hegde on the topic of Use Case best practices.
He provides quite a laundry list, and I recommend that you give him a read for the rest, but I’ll include a few points that I particularly liked below: