Chapter 1 - Some fundamental truths in Business requirements.


Requirements exist whether you discover them or not, and whether you write them down or not. Obviously, your product will never be right unless it conforms to the requirements, so in this way you can think of the requirements as natural law, and it is up to you to discover them. The owner is the person or organization that pays for the software. On the other side of the ledger, the owner gets a benefit from the software. To describe that relationship very simply, the owner is buying a benefit. On the other side of the ledger, the owner gets a benefit from the software. To describe that relationship very simply, the owner is buying a benefit.

The software becomes more capable and the cost of construction increases, so the benefit that the software brings. At some point, however, the cost of construction starts to outstrip the benefit and the project is no longer beneficial.

If software does not have to satisfy a need, then you can build anything. In any case, on the off chance that it is intended to fulfil a need, at that point we need to comprehend what that need is to assemble the correct software. the business experts haggle with the proprietor about which item will best improve the work. The business investigators produce prerequisites that depict the usefulness of the item. Without knowing these necessities, there is minimal possibility that any item rising out of the improvement task will be of a lot of significant worth.

There is a significant contrast between building a bit of software and taking care of a business issue. The previous doesn't really achieve the last mentioned. The prerequisites don't need to be composed; however, they need to get known to the developers. Client don't generally offer us the correct response. Some of the time it is unthinkable for the client to recognize what he is correct, and some of the time simply doesn't have a clue what he needs.

Requirements do not come about by chance. There needs to be orderly process for developing them. We have to understand what the business needs.

There is no silver bullet. All our methods and tools will not compensate for poor thought and poor workmanship.

Requirements, if they are to be implemented successfully, must be measurable and testable. The business analyst will change the way the user thinks about his problem, either now or later.

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  1. This is the first chapter in Business Requirements gathering. It is based on the fundamentals, aka basics about the requirements in business. This blog really clears out the concept of applications of requirements in a business, weather or not you follow or believe in the concept of useful requirements, it does put a visible impact on any kind of business small or large. Requirements are a necessary concept to be followed rightly for a successful outcome. Requirements do not come about by the change there is a need to be kept an eye on the requirements as the business blooms or changes and the implementations of those changes in requirements. It is made very clear by the book and this blog that a bad implementation in a change of requirements or understanding the need for requirement will lead in a negative outcome which is not a result a stakeholder would want or like.

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  2. This blog help me to understand the true purpose of business requirements. The main point is to understand the problems or need in business and find out the possible solutions for it, thus the product can be valuable for its owners. So, requirements are very impotent in business purpose because they don't show up by chance. There needs to be orderly process for developing them. So it is important to understand what the business needs.

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  3. This chapter talks about the important contributions of requirements and some fundamental truths about them as to get more understanding of how to gather them and make use of them. Gathering right requirements help in focusing on understanding a business problem and providing a solution for it. We can learn how essential it is to have measurable and testable requirements. The right requirements lead to the outcome the stakeholders want and thus result in success of the project otherwise it can lead to unwanted outcomes.

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