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What analysis and modeling techniques do you use to translate business objectives into system requirements?
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srikanthpullikanti- Member Since May-2008 | May 16th, 2008
When the Business Obectives are set then BA makes a Requirements documentation in which the analysis is done by various techniques like
Stakeholder interview,Goals,JRD sessions ,prototypes,usecases,SRS,Stake holders intrest and issues and Attempted soltions.
MOdelling techniques is the next step after the requirements is done by UML used for functional or logical view, code view,or development or structural view.dody1108
- May 14th, 2010
The analysis techniques that I have used:Lay out business problemsDepicting business problems by grapical structures using MS visio, rational s/w tool, simple flowchartsWell organized JAR sessions wit...
srikanthpullikanti
- May 16th, 2008
When the Business Obectives are set then BA makes a Requirements documentation in which the analysis is done by various techniques like Stakeholder interview,Goals,JRD sessions ,prototypes,usecas...
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