Business Driven Technology
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ISBN: 9781259567322
Author: Paige Baltzan Instructor
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 17, Problem 1CQ
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Business Requirements:
- The specific business requests system should meet so as to be successful.
- The entire system development effort is driven by business requirements.
- The business requirements are gathered through investigation.
- The users identify all business needs of organization and take measurements for these needs.
- The methods to gather requirements includes:
- Conducting user interviews to determine current issues and operations.
- Surveying employees through questionnaires for discovering issues.
- Making observations to determine manner in which current operations are been performed.
- Reviewing business documents for discovering policies, reports and how information is been used in organization.
Ambiguous Business Requirements:
- An ambiguous requirement means that multiple readers may interpret the same thing in different ways.
- It may rise due to inadequate participation of end users during design and analysis phases.
- It may occur commonly in reports due to different mindset of developers and users.
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